A long awaited fully revised and updated edition of Graeme Turner's popular exploration of celebrity studies.
A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodological and theoretical challenges it faces today and sets an agenda for its future development.
This third edition of a popular text offers an accessible overview of the central themes: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse.
Spanning a decade of key research, this collectionbrings together the essays and chapters of leading media scholar Graeme Turner for the first time.
Fully revised and updated to bring it in line with contemporary film analysis and new material published, this new edition now includes revised chapters, new illustrations, film theories and an expanded treatment of special effects and spectacle.
Dynamic and insightful exploration of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content. How are 'ordinary' people being integrated into current media formats?