Este autor profundiza en la intrincada relación entre los medios y la cultura, explorando sus manifestaciones en el cine, la televisión y los nuevos paisajes digitales. Su obra examina críticamente las intersecciones de clase, género y raza, investigando cómo estas construcciones sociales dan forma a nuestra comprensión de la ciudadanía y la teoría política. Con una base en estudios culturales y teoría social, el enfoque del autor se caracteriza por una lente interdisciplinaria rigurosa. A través de extensos roles editoriales y contribuciones académicas, da forma al discurso sobre el trabajo cultural y la política.
Engaging with journalism through the lens of cultural studies, this book explores essential claims about the profession while tackling its most pressing contemporary issues, including critiques of journalistic practices, the quest for objectivity, and the insecurity faced by journalists today.
Is democracy a force for good or something much more dangerous?
Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus instead on the specificities of history, place, and population as explanations for it.
This work outlines the theories and approaches to the study of television in an accessible form for students. It is divided into four sections - forms of knowledge, audiences, gender and race. It discusses many television texts including "Star Trek", "Kung Fu" and "Sesame Street".
Offering the first comprehensive and international work on cultural policy, Toby Miller and George Yudice have produced a landmark work in the emerging field of cultural policy. Rigorous in its field of survey and astute in its critical commentary it enables students to gain a global grounding in cultural policy.
As with film, genre is central to the industry and visual form that is television. This book provides an introduction to the subject's core debates, issues and concerns. It is divided into eight sections which what is genre?; popular entertainment; children's television; and drama.