The mass media sell audiences which perform three key functions for the survival of the
system: audiences market goods to themselves, they learn to vote for candidates in the …

First published in 1989, Cultural Politics in Contemporary America is a radical attempt to lay
out the complex ways in which the American media and American culture is powerfully …

[...] the material in this text comes from around the globe, and these local stories aptly
demonstrate that it is the logic of capitalism, especially in its neo-liberal form, which is …

There is something disingenuous in the title of Nicholas Garnham's critique of cultural
studies. The familial alternatives—reconciliation or divorce—imply that cultural studies and …

Explores implications of the antagonism between Marxist political economy and cultural
studies. Argues that the antagonism is based on a profound misunderstanding of political …

Following the work of a range of public intellectuals like Stanley Aronowitz, Henry Giroux,
bell hooks, Chantal Mouffe, and Cornel West, Cultural Democracy argues for a" radical …

In this essay, the author analyzes social science thinking about the capitalist market from
instrumentalism to institutionalism and the recent turn toward more cultural economics, and …

By Paul DiMaggio ong-term change in the quality of a society's popular culture is easy| to
notice, but difficult to characterize. In twentieth-century America, we can note the apparent …

This book offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the relationship between media
power and cultural production. By marshalling a range of theoretical perspectives from …

Aaron Wildavsky, along with Mary Douglas, identified what they called grid-group theory.
Wildavsky began calling this" cultural theory," and applied it to an astounding array of …