Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 240
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-78348-555-0 • Hardback • September 2016 • $163.00 • (£127.00)
978-1-78348-556-7 • Paperback • September 2016 • $56.00 • (£43.00)
978-1-78348-557-4 • eBook • September 2016 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Sean Johnson Andrews is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. His research and teaching centers on media and cultural studies, globalization, and the relationship between law and culture. His co-authored anthology 'Cultural Studies and the 'Juridical Turn'' was published by Routledge in 2016. His next book The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property Rights will be published by Temple University Press.
1. Valorizing Hegemony: American Mass Media, Intellectual Property, and the Economic Value of the Ideological State Apparatuses / 2. A Slightly Deeper Time of the Media: Culture and the Nineteenth-Century Struggle for Hegemony / 3. When Shakespeare Became Black(face) and Christmas Became White: Race, Class, and Valorization before the Commodification of Consciousness / 4. Administration and/of Culture: The Incorporation of Media Culture and the Critique of the Frankfurt School and Political Economy of Communication / 5. The Work of Meaning and the Meaning of Work: Cultural Studies and the Discovery of Audience Labor / 6. Culture Industry 2.0: Properties of Cultural Production and the Value of Commodified Sociality
Johnson Andrews’s book is a refreshing and commendable addition to recent work on cultural production.
— Review of Contemporary Philosophy
Clearly written and forcefully argued, Andrews’ book brings together research across the full range of critical thought to deepen holistic thinking about the ownership and control of media, entertainment and intellectual property; full of essential insights into overcoming the political economy/cultural studies divide.
— Vincent Mosco, Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada
Hegemony, Mass Media and Cultural Studies offers a needed and welcome engagement with three critical paradigms in media studies—the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, early British Cultural Studies, and the Political Economy of Communication—that aims to provide a compelling, usable theoretical synthesis for contemporary media scholars and students. Rigorously interdisciplinary, historically grounded, methodologically creative and theoretically sophisticated, Sean Johnson Andrews’ book is a prominent intervention in the field.
— Janice Peck, Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research, University of Colorado Boulder
Sean Johnson Andrews is one of those exceedingly rare critics and commentators who is equally alert to the meaning and the economics of popular culture. He skillfully navigates the foggy waterways where audiences, institutions, and texts collide. Bravo!
— Toby Miller, Professor and Director of the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University
The bulk of the text offers a compelling investigation into the corporate control of commodified culture … Andrews is at his best when describing specific histories that support his overall claims regarding hegemony and cultural meaning making.
Andrew Wood, Lateral
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Offers a rigorous, interconnected overview of dominant and critical paradigms of media and cultural studies from the early twentieth century to the present.
Helps readers better understand the ways their political agency, cultural value, and economic power cut across the supposed divide between new and old media.
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Ideal for advanced-level undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Mass Media, Cultural Studies, Digital Media and American Culture.
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