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Article: Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception.
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- Article from:
- Social Forces
- Article date:
- March 1, 1998
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Reviewer: NORMAN K. DENZIN, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The twelve chapters (plus introduction) in this important new collection blend the work of a new generation of cultural-studies media scholars with statements from founding figures in the British and American versions of this tradition (S. Hall, D. Morley, J. Radway). In its classic and contemporary approaches to media studies, cultural studies has assumed that the media reproduces the ideological beliefs and gender, class, race, and ethnic biases of a dominant class. It is further assumed that access to reality is today a matter of the media; that is, what passes for the real is socially ...