Culture, Media, Language

Professor Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson (Edited by) ,  Andrew Lowe (Edited by) ,  Paul Willis (Edited by)

• Part One Introduction 1 Cultural Studies and the Centre: some problematics and Problems, 2 Barrington Moore, Perry Anderson and English social Development, Part Two Ethnography 3 Introduction to ethnography at the Centre, 4 Subcultural conflict and working-class community, 5 Notes on method, 6 Green Farm Scout Camp, 7 Housewives and the mass media, Part Three Media Studies 8 Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre, 9 The ideological dimension of media messages, 10 Encoding/decoding, 11 Television news and the Social Contract, 12 Recent developments in theories of language and ideology: a critical note, 13 Texts, readers, subjects, Part Four Language 14 Introduction to Language Studies at the Centre, 15 Ideology and subjectivity, 16 Theories of language and subjectivity, 17 Sexuality for sale, Part Five English Studies 18 Literature/society: mapping the field The Literature and Society Group, 1972–3, 19 Recent developments in English Studies at the Centre The English Studies Group, 1978–9, 20 Selective guide to further reading and contacts

`No-one who wants to understand why cultural studies have now become a respectable, vigorous and essential field of analysis can afford to ignore it.' - TES