James Curran, David Morley, and Valerie Walkerdine are all at Goldsmith's College, London. A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society, this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework. "Anyone interested in fresh perspectives on diverse cultural issues should examine this sixteen-essay analysis."?American Society of International Law Read Less