| Title |
Exploring media culture : a guide. |
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| Table of Contents |
| | List of Figures | |
| | Acknowledgments | |
| | Introduction: A Guidebook for Media Study | |
| 1 | Culture, Media, and Identity: My Music | 1 |
| 2 | Ritual Participation: Toward an Ethnography of Fans, Hackers, and Jumpers | 41 |
| 3 | Reception Theory: Sex, Violence, and (Ms.)Interpreting Madonna | 92 |
| 4 | Textual Analysis: Light Against Darkness in Disney and Film Noir | 118 |
| 5 | Production/Hegemony: "And the Winner Is ... Hollywood!" | 148 |
| 6 | Gender Analysis: Patriarchy, Film Women, and The Piano | 171 |
| 7 | Historical/Ethical Interpretation: Reconstructing the Quiz Show Scandal | 208 |
| 8 | Postmodern Aesthetics: MTV, David Lynch, and the Olympics | 237 |
| 9 | Conclusions: Navajos and "Co-Authoring" Media Culture | 267 |
| | References | 281 |
| | Index | 301 |
| | About the Author | 311 |
