Mass media and society. / 
edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch. 
 - New York:  Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall,  1991. 
 - 350 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Contents: Mass media and society: general perspectives: Culture, communications and political economy -- Feminist perspectives on the media -- Postmodernism and television -- Mass media in the public interest: towards a framework of norms for media performance -- Mass media and democracy: a reappraisal -- The global and the local in international communications -- Media production: The sociology of news production revisited -- A mass communication perspective on entertainment industries -- The globalization of electronic journalism -- The new television marketplace: imperatives, implications, issues -- In defense of objectivity -- Mediation of cultural meanings: On understanding and misunderstanding media effects  -- Meaning, genre and context: the problematics of 'public knowledge' in the new audience studies -- Audience reception: the role of the viewer in retelling romantic drama -- Gender and/in media consumption -- The politics of communication and the communication of politics --  
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0340559470 : 034051759X (pbk.) : 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91023441  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mass media--Social aspects.<br/>Mass media--Political aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM258.M26 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>302.23