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Book SynopsisBrings together sixteen essays on key and intersecting topics in critical cultural studies from major scholars in the field. This title includes essays that give particular attention to how relevant ideas, themes, and terms were developed, elaborated, and deployed in the work of James W Carey, the 'founding father' of cultural studies in the US.
Trade ReviewAwarded the James W. Carey Media Research Award from the Carl Couch Center, 2011.
"An unusually full and rich--and sometimes passionate--conversation on communication and culture, this volume offers a selection of illuminating and provocative responses to the life's work of James W. Carey.”--Carolyn Kitch, author of Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines
“A creative approach to connecting key elements in a sometimes abstract field. Recommended for students and scholars of critical and cultural studies.”--Lee Wilkins, coeditor of The Handbook of Mass Media Ethics
Table of ContentsContributors are: Stuart Allan, Jack Zeljko Bratich, Clifford Christians, Norman Denzin, Mark Fackler, Robert Fortner, Lawrence Grossberg, Joli Jensen, Steve Jones, John Nerone, Lana Rakow, Quentin J. Schultze, Linda Steiner, Angharad N. Valdivia, Catherine Warren, Frederick Wasser, and Barbie Zelizer
