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Communications • Cultural Studies BABE

Critical Media Studies
Editor: Andrew Calabrese

“Robert E. Babe has clearly established himself as the leading communications
scholar in Canada, following in the venerated footsteps of Harold Innis, Marshall
McLuhan, and Dallas Smythe. This book is an invaluable scholarly critique of
American cultural studies and poststructuralism.” —James Winter, professor
of communication studies, University of Windsor

“As always, Robert E. Babe unpacks the delicious debates and unexpected
influences in the historiography of communication and cultural studies and in
doing so provides provocative and prolific ideas for the reintegration of political
economy and cultural studies.” —Leslie Regan Shade, associate professor
of communication studies, Concordia University

This book addresses the notorious split between the two fields of cultural stud-
ies 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
can be reconciled to certain aspects of cultural studies, particularly with regard CULTURAL STUDIES AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
to cultural materialism.

Uniting the two fields has proven to be a complex undertaking though it makes
practical sense, given the close interaction between political economy and cul-
tural studies. Babe examines the evolution of cultural studies over time and its
changing relationship with political economy. The intersections between the two
fields center around three subjects: the cultural biases of money, the time/space
dialectic, and the dialectic of information.
CULTURAL STUDIES AND
ROBERT E. BABE is professor of information and media studies at the University
of Western Ontario in Canada.
POLITICAL ECONOMY

TOWARD A NEW INTEGRATION

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