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Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Preface vii

I CLASS, IDEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA 1
Introduction 2
1 The study of the media: theoretical approaches 6
James Curran, Michael Gurevitch and Janet Woollacott
2 Theories of the media, theories of society 26
Tony Bennett
3 The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media 52
studies
Stuart Hall
4 Messages and meanings 87
Janet Woollacott

II MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS 110
Introduction 111
5 Large corporations and the control of the communications 114
industries
Graham Murdock

6 Negotiation of control in media organizations and occupations 148
Margaret Gallagher
7 Cultural dependency and the mass media 172
J.O. Boyd-Barrett

III THE POWER OF THE MEDIA 194
Introduction 195
8 Communications, power and social order 198
James Curran