Marxist Media Theory

        Daniel Chandler

        References

        • Allen, Robert C. (Ed.) (1992): Channels of Discourse, Reassembled. London: Routledge
        • Althusser, Louis (1971): 'Ideology and ideological state apparatuses'. In Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays. London: New Left Books
        • Alvarado, Manuel & Oliver Boyd-Barrett (Eds.): Media Education: An Introduction. London: BFI/Open University
        • Bennett, Tony (1982): 'Theories of the media, theories of society'. In Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), op. cit.
        • Berger, Arthur Asa (1982): Media Analysis Techniques. Newbury Park, CA: Sage (Chapter 2, 'Marxist Analysis') [easy, but largely too easy]
        • Boyd-Barrett, Oliver (1992): 'The Social Science Tradition'. In Alvarado & Boyd-
        • Barrett (Eds.), op. cit. [section from pp. 174ff]
        • Curran, James, Michael Gurevitch & Janet Woollacott (1982): 'The study of the media: theoretical approaches'. In Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), op. cit. [very useful]
        • Fiske, John (1992): 'British Cultural Studies and Television'. In Allen (Ed.), op. cit. [includes summary of Hall's account of 'preferred readings' and alternative reading strategies: pp 292-3]
        • Gramsci, Antonio (1971): Selections from the Prison Notebooks. London: Lawrence & Wishart
        • Gurevitch, Michael, Tony Bennett, James Curran & Janet Woollacott (Ed.) (1982): Culture, Society and the Media. London: Methuen (Part 1, 'Class, Ideology and the Media')
        • Hall, Stuart (1980): 'Encoding/decoding'. In Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (Ed.): Culture, Media, Language. London: Hutchinson [important paper, though not initially an easy read]
        • Hall, Stuart (1982): 'The rediscovery of "ideology": return of the repressed in media studies'. In Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), op. cit. [a key article by Hall]
        • Hall, Stuart, C. Critcher, T. Jefferson, J. Clarke & B. Roberts (1978): Policing the Crisis. London: Macmillan
        • Lapsley, Robert & Michael Westlake (1988): Film Theory: An Introduction. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Chapter 1, 'Politics': pages 1-17 offer a very useful account of Althusserian Marxism)
        • Marcuse, Herbert (1972): One-Dimensional Man. London: Abacus [not for the faint-hearted]
        • McQuail, Denis (1987): Mass Communication Theory. London: Sage (Chapter 3, 'Theory of Media and Theory of Society'; Chapter 4, 'Media Theory Applied: Power, Integration and Change')
        • Murdock, Graham (1982): 'Large Corporations and the Control of the Communications Industries'. In Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), op. cit.
        • Murdock, Graham and Peter Golding (1977): 'Capitalism, communication and class relations'. In James Curran, Michael Gurevitch & Janet Woollacott (Eds.): Mass Communication and Society. London: Arnold
        • Stevenson, Nick (1995): Understanding Media Cultures: Social Theory and Mass Communication. London: Sage (Chapter 1: 'Marxism and Mass Communication Research')
        • Strinati, Dominic (1995): An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture. London: Routledge (Chapter 4: 'Marxism, Political Economy and Ideology', pp. 127-76)
        • White, Mimi (1992): 'Ideological Analysis and Television'. In Allen (Ed.), op. cit. [useful overview pp. 163-170,with good bibliography]
        • Woollacott, Janet (1982): 'Messages and Meanings'. In Gurevitch et al. (Eds.), op. cit. [Useful review of Hall et al. 1978]

        [See also general reference works on mass media, politics and sociology]

        Daniel Chandler
        UWA 1994


        Contents

        • Contents Page
        • Introduction
        • Base and superstructure
        • Media as means of production
        • Ideology
        • Media as amplifiers
        • The constitution of the subject
        • Differences within Marxism
        • The Frankfurt School
        • Althusser
        • Gramsci and hegemony
        • Stuart Hall
        • Limitations of Marxist analysis
        • Strengths of Marxist analysis
        • References