The Media Studies Reader is a broad and accessible anthology that addresses the key topics, debates and theoretical perspectives associated with the interdisciplinary field of media studies. Emphasizing critical and cultural approaches, The Media Studies Reader presents foundational essays by leading scholars alongside the most influential new writing in the field today. The reader encompasses a wide range of conceptual vantage points, including political economy, semiotics, ideological and myth analysis, cultural studies, audience and fan studies, identity and representational politics, public sphere theory and newer work on interactivity, governmentality and self-fashioning.

The Media Studies Reader provides an entry point into the critical media studies tradition ' as well as a timely account of new theoretical moves and technological developments. A map of a rapidly growing ' and changing ' field, it will be an invaluable resource to students as well as established scholars.

Laurie Ouellette is Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches Critical Media Studies. She is also affiliated with the American Studies Department and the Graduate Minor in Moving Image Studies.

Section I: Media/Culture

1. Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, in Dialectic of Enlightenment

2. Tania Modleski, "Mass-Produced Fantasies for Women"

3. George Lipsitz, "Popular Culture: This Ain't no Sideshow"

4. Baretta Smith-Shomade, "Eyes Wide Shut: Capitalism, Class and the Promise of Black Media"

5. Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy"

6. Lev Manovich, "The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production"

Section II: Media/Technology

7. Susan Douglas, "The Turn Within: The Irony of Technology in a Globalized World"

8. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

9. Lisa Gitelman, "Reading Music, Reading Records, Reading Race"

10. Lynn Spigel, "The Domestic Economy of Television Viewing in Postwar America"

11. Anna McCarthy, "From Screen to Site"

12. Leopoldina Fortunati, "The Mobile Phone: Towards New Categories and Social Relations"

Section III: Media/Representation

13. Stuart Hall, "The Work of Representation"

14. John Berger, "Ways of Seeing"

15. Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, "Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle over Representation"

16. Anne McLintock, "Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising"

17. Andrew Wernick, "The Promotional Condition of Contemporary Culture"

18. Nick Couldry, "Liveness, 'Reality,' and the Mediated Habitus from Television to the Mobile Phone"

Section IV: Media/Industry

19. Herbert Schiller, "The Corporation and the Production of Culture"

20. Michael Curtin, "On Edge: Culture Industries in the Neo-Network Era"

21. Tom McCourt and Patrick Burkart, "When Creators, Corporations and Consumers Collide: Napster and the Development of Online Music Distribution"

22. Marwan Kraidy, "The Cultural and Political Economies of Hybrid Media Texts"

23. Toby Miller and Marie Claire Leger, "Runaway Production, Runaway Consumption, Runaway Citizenship: The New International Division of Cultural Labor"

24. Tizania Terranova, "Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy"

Section V: Media/Identity

25. Stuart Hall, "Who Needs Identity?"

26. David Morley and Kevin Robins, "Under Western Eyes: Media, Empire and Otherness"

27. Sarah Banet-Weiser, "What's Your Flava: Race and Postfeminism in Media Culture"

28. Judith Halberstam, "Oh Behave! Austin Powers and the Drag Kings"

29. Laura Grindstaff, "Class, Trash and Cultural Hierarchy"

30. P. David Marshall, "The Promotion and Presentation of the Self: Celebrity as Marker of Presentational Media"

Section VI: Media/Audience

31. Ien Ang, "On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research"

32. Lawrence Grossberg, "The Affective Sensibility of Fandom"

33. bell hooks, "The Oppositional Gaze"

34. Jack Bratich, "Amassing the Multitude: Revisiting Early Audience Studies"

35. Mark Andrejevic, "The Work of Being Watched: Interactive Media and the Exploitation of Self-Disclosure"

36. Mizuko Ito, "Japanese Media Mixes and Amateur Cultural Exchange"

Section VII: Media/Citizenship

37. Peter Dahlgren, "Mediating Democracy"

38. Stuart Cunningham, "Popular Media as Public 'Sphericules' for Diasporic Communities"

39. Jeffrey Jones, "A Cultural Approach to the Study of Mediated Citizenship"

40. Lauren Berlant, "The Theory of Infantile Citizenship"

41. Laurie Ouellette and James Hay, "Makeover Television, Governmentality and the Good Citizen"

42. Hector Amaya, "Citizenship, Diversity, Law and Ugly Betty"