ABSTRACT
What would be the difference if we were to open up the cultural studies agenda to the framing influence of public-policy processes, rather than taking such processes as simply further objects for critical analysis? Through focusing on the question of television and violence, this article pursues the possibility that such an inversion may create significant opportunities for renewal in cultural studies. The issues, though global in their ambit and relevance, are discussed in relation to a major contemporary moment of policy development in Australia.
