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Nation, Culture, Text
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership. Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important... more...
Film as Social Practice
Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95Graeme Turner provides a clear introduction to major theoretical issues in the history of film production and film studies, examining the function of film as a national cultural industry, and its place in our popular culture. more...
British Cultural Studies
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.95is a comprehensive introduction to the British tradition of cultural studies. Turner offers an accessible overview of the central themes that have informed British cultural studies: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse. Beginning with a history of cultural studies, Turner discusses the work of such... more...
Understanding Celebrity
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 70.00The first comprehensive survey of celebrity in the contemporary media. more...
Ending the Affair
University of NSW Press 2005; US$ 32.95Examines the state of current affairs television in Australia today by pondering its future, while drawing lessons from the past. The book questions the social and political value of what we now think of as current affairs journalism. Underpinning this approach is the conviction that TV current affairs serves functions which are important to a civilised... more...
Ordinary People and the Media
SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 50.00Dynamic and insightful exploration of the 'everyday' individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content. How are 'ordinary' people being integrated into current media formats? more...
What's Become of Cultural Studies?
SAGE Publications 2011; US$ 48.00A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodological and theoretical challenges it faces today and sets an agenda for its future development. more...
Ending the Affair
University of New South Wales Press 2012; US$ 27.99Examines the state of current affairs television in Australia today by pondering its future, while drawing lessons from the past. The book questions the social and political value of what we now think of as current affairs journalism. Underpinning this approach is the conviction that TV current affairs serves functions which are important to a civilized... more...
Film as Social Practice
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 36.95This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films. With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from Classical Hollywood, Graeme Turner examines the social and cultural aspects of film from audiences and ideologies to exhibition and technology.... more...
Australian TV Book
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 40.90A comprehensive introduction to the television industry in Australia. more...









