Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works

This work will prove very useful for academic courses in media and cultural studies. It contains a range of extracts and essays which are ‐ genuinely ‐ key works in these fields, those works, like Horkheimer and Adorno’s analysis of the culture industry, Baudrillard’s discussion of simulacra and hyperreality, and Barthes on myths and Debord on spectacle, and Jameson on the cultural logic of late capitalism. These are texts the self‐respecting course on the culture industry cannot do without, and for this reason the book will find its easy way on to shelves in academic and college libraries around the...