Books in the Culture, Media and Identities series series

A long-awaited second edition of this classic cultural studies textbook. A seminal text brought right up to date for a new generation of students and teachers.

Highly anticipated Second Edition of one of the most popular and influential books ever written in media and cultural studies. A genuine classic, expertly updated for a new generation of students and researchers.

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.

This text outlines the challenge presented by key debates on identity to central questions of gender, sexuality, embodiment, health, "race" and nation. It includes discussion of the importance of identity and difference in the contemporary world at multiple levels - global, local and personal.

This innovative text offers a novel understanding of relations between the economic and the cultural. It shows how cultural products are produced, marketed and sold in an increasingly global economy. It illustrates that contemporary cultural goods and services are inextricably bound up with economic processes of production, circulation and exchange.

This innovative text offers a novel understanding of relations between the economic and the cultural. It shows how cultural products are produced, marketed and sold in an increasingly global economy. It illustrates that contemporary cultural goods and services are inextricably bound up with economic processes of production, circulation and exchange.

This text studies how far culture can be regulated through formal controls on the media and how such controls are shaped in an age of cultural diversity and global cultural industries. It deals with how the issues of sexuality, globalization and multiculturalism influence the process of regulation.

Reviewing key contemporary issues and debates about consumption, this accessible textbook portrays and assesses the varied and complex intersections of consumption and everyday life. The contributors show the varying balance between constraint and creativity, links between consumption and production, and the patterns which shape access to symbolic and material resources.