Books in the Culture, Representation and Identity series series

Drawing on a wealth of material from film, television, art and popular culture, Angela McRobbie tackles the so-called 'end' of feminism.

Like many other popular academic terms, 'identity' has been asked to do so much work that it has often ended up doing none at all and, as a consequence, there has been a recent turn away from identity work. In this book, the author moves identity theory in a new direction.

'One of the most important books on race, representation and politics to come along in a decade' - Henry Giroux, Penn State UniversityRepresenting Black Britain offers a critical history of Black and Asian representation on British television from the earliest days of broadcasting to the present day.

The economic and cultural role of the `creative industries' has gained a new prominence and centrality in recent years. These worlds are explored here through the most emblematic creative industry: advertising. Advertising Cultures presents a case-study of the social make-up, informal cultures and subjective identities of these creative practices.

Advertising is often used to illustrate popular and academic debates about cultural and economic life. This book reviews cultural and sociological approaches to advertising and, using historical evidence, demonstrates that a rethink of the analysis of advertising is long overdue.

This series is dedicated to an understanding of `cultural studies' as an interdisciplinary project concerned with the analysis of meaning. It focuses attention on the importance of the contemporary `cultural turn' in forging a rethink of the centrality of `the cultural' and the articulation between the material and the symbolic.