Books in the Studies in Culture and Communication series

This standard text has been fully updated to include the new developments in radio. Crisell has added a chapter on the increasingly popular 'talk-and-music' format,

How can we study communication? What are the main theories and methods of approach? This title presents an introduction to the main authorities in the field of communication studies. It outlines a range of methods of analysing examples of communication, and describes the theories underpinning them.

On Video explores video on two levels: first, it examines the relationship between technology and society; and second, it probes the connection between production methods and the communication of meaning.

News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.

Views television drama from a cultural studies perspective, examining the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. Tulloch looks at genres such as soap opera, science fiction, sitcoms and police series.

An introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. The book examines a number of programme categories and discusses aspects of the history of the organization of television. It also looks at some key conceptual debates about hegemony in contemporary television.

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.

As consumers, we all encounter advertising as part of our daily lives. However we are often unaware of its more subtle form of persuasion. This book examies advertising in modern society and also views its cultural and economic impact.

This study of the everyday components of daily life, as yet neglected by cultural theorists, argues that it is possibly through studying the mundane that we can learn the most about capitalist culture.

Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such as news, drama-documentary, sit-com, soap opera, sport and quizzes, and discusses aspects of the history of the organisation of television, its audiences and its future; it also looks at some key conceptual debates about hegemony in contemporary television