ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1992, challenges the elitism and cultural pessimism of much Anglo-American and Continental cultural debate with regard to the role and power of transnational media practices. In a series of ten innovative essays, an international group of media researchers explores a wide range of cultural practices across national borders and the cultural politics associated with these everyday practices and debates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Media cultures: the historical process
part II|96 pages
National and transnational media cultures
chapter Chapter 3|19 pages
Electronic communities and domestic rituals
Cultural consumption and the production of European cultural identities
chapter Chapter 5|20 pages
French-American connection
A bout de souffle, Breathless, and the melancholy macho
chapter Chapter 6|18 pages
More than just images: the whole picture
News in the multi-channel universe
part III|61 pages
Popular audiences and cultural quality
chapter Chapter 8|20 pages
Intertextuality and metafiction
Genre and narration in the television fiction of Dennis Potter
chapter Chapter 9|18 pages
Semiotics by instinct
‘Cult film’ as a signifying practice between audience and film
chapter 10|21 pages
Cultural quality: search for a phantom?
A reception perspective on judgements of cultural value
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