TY - BOOK AU - Curran,James AU - Gurevitch,Michael TI - Mass media and society. SN - 0340559470 : AV - HM258.M26 U1 - 302.23 20 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall KW - Mass media KW - Social aspects KW - Political aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 -- ER -