Cultural studies and political economy toward a new integration /

• Main Author: Babe, Robert E.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, ©2009.
• Series: Critical media studies.
• Subjects: Economics > Sociological aspects.; Cultural industries > Social aspects.; Mass media > Economic aspects.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural. > Anthropology; POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy. > Public Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.; Electronic books.
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This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural studies and political economy. Drawing on the works of Harold Innis, Theodor Adorno, Raymond Williams, Richard Hoggart, E.P. Thompson, and other major theorists in the two fields, Robert E. Babe shows that political economy c...

Table of Contents:

• Genealogy of political economy
• Genealogy of cultural studies
• The colloquy revisited
• Genealogy of poststructuralist cultural studies and the political economy of media scholarship
• Environment and pecuniary culture
• Time and space
• Semiotics and the dialectic of information
• Keeping the portals open: Poster vs. Innis.