The Media in Britain

PART 1: THE STRUCTURE OF CONTEMPORARY BRITISH MEDIA INDUSTRIES.- Introduction; J.Stokes.- Publishing: Britain's First Mass Medium; J.Stokes .- Advertising; P.Meech.- The Press; C.Sparks.- Broadcasting: Television and Radio; A.Crisell.- Cinema; J.Hill.- The Music Industry; P.McDonald.- New Media; J.Cornford and K.Robins.- PART 2: CURRENT MEDIA POLICY.- Introduction; A.Reading.- The Role of the State in Shaping the Media; P.Goodwin.- The Regulation of Media Content; J.Petley.- European Union Media and Communication Policies; R.Collins.- Campaigns to Change the Media; A.Reading.- PART 3: MEDIA MATERIAL: CONTENT AND REPRESENTATION.- Introduction; J.Stokes.- Ethnic Minorities and the British News Media: Explaining (Mis)Representation; S.Cottle.- Documentary and Citizenship: The Case of Stephen Lawrence; J.Owen.- Use it or Lose it: Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Magazines for Girls; J.Stokes.- Transnational Trainspotting; M.Smith.- Offending, Looking, Killing and Film-Making: Decoding Peeping Tom; B.Slater.- A Postmodernist Calls; Class, Conscience and the British Theatre; A.Sierz.- Representing the New Scotland: Drama, Devolution and Dominant Representations; J.Sillars.- Consuming the Garden: Locating a Feminine Narrative within Popular Cultural Texts and Gendered Genres; J.Gabb.- Selling Sexuality in the Lesbian and Gay Press; A.Reading .- Hanif Kureishi and the Politics of Cultural Hybridity; B.Moore-Gilbert.- Blind Date and the Phenomenology of Fun; P.Scannell.- Di/'Crash'; J.Russell.- Ethnic Identity and Cultural Heritage: Belsen in the Museum; R.Crownshaw.- Spinnin': Dance Culture on the World Wide Web; H.C.Rietveld.<p></p><p></p>