Andrew Calabrese is associate professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Colin Sparks is professor of media studies and director of the Communication and Media Research Institute of the University of Westminster.

• Part 1 Part I Taking Stock of the Political Economy of Communication and CultureChapter 2 1 Toward a Political Economy of CultureChapter 3 2 The Rise of the Westminster SchoolChapter 4 3 Making a Molehill out of a Mountain: The Sad State of the Political Economy in U.S. Media StudiesPart 5 Part II Capitalism, Communication, and the Public SphereChapter 6 4 "The Marketplace of Ideas": A History of the ConceptChapter 7 5 Capitalism and Communication: A New Era of Society or the Accentuation of Long-Term Tendencies?Chapter 8 6 Kugai: The Lost Public Sphere in Japanese HistoryChapter 9 7 Truth Commissions, Nation Building, and International Human Rights: The South African Experience and the Politics of Human Rights Post-9/11Part 10 Part III The Political Economy of Film and BroadcastingChapter 11 8 Show Me the Money: Challenging Hollywood EconomicsChapter 12 9 The Fight for Proportionality in BroadcastingChapter 13 10 Broadcasting and the Market: The Case of Public TelevisionChapter 14 11 Living with Monsters: Can Broadcasting Regulation Make a Difference?Part 15 Part IV New Media, the Information Society, and Other Obscure ObjectsChapter 16 12 Capitalism's Chernobyl? From Ground Zero to Cyberspace and Back AgainChapter 17 13 New Media and the Forces of CapitalismChapter 18 14 Dismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and ExclusionChapter 19 15 Building the Information Society in EU Candidate Countries: A Long Way to GoChapter 20 16 Romanticism in Business Culture: The Internet, the 1900s, and the Origins of Irrational ExuberanceChapter 21 17 The Impact of the Internet on the Existing MediaPart 22 Part IV Extending the Boundaries of Political EconomyChapter 23 18 Audiences on DemandChapter 24 19 Feminist Theory and the Political Economy of Communication

The authors are to be congratualted for the clarity of their writting . . . Likely to prompt deep reflection and to establish a conceptual framework by which the political economy of communication and culture can be addressed in unison and even more aptly in the future,Toward a Political Economy of Culture should be required reading not only in specialized courses on media, communication, and discourse, but also in more general courses on political economy.