Product Description: Journalism: Theory, Context and Practice is a brand-new textbook which examines the theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts of journalism. Throughout, commentary from practicing journalists and practical exercises ensure that all debates remained firmly grounded in the realities of being a journalist...read more

Product Description: What is tabloid culture? How do tabloid media prompt debates about values and ethics? Can we respond positively to the ‘tabloidization’ of culture? What is so appealing about the rhetoric, attitude and posture of tabloid culture? Which theories and concepts can help us analyse and understand tabloid media? This wide-ranging and accessible Reader provides a useful introduction to the historical and contemporary debates about the values, ethics and pleasures of tabloid news, entertainment and culture...read more

This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor.

Product Description: The powerful image of Margaret Thatcher behind the wheel of a tank, a modern day Britannia with her headscarf trailing in the breeze, in many ways epitomises the themes of this book. Drawing on a wide range of material - speeches, press photos, campaign posters, radio interviews, magazine articles, political biographies - this well-documented and scholarly analysis shows the interplay of gender, fantasy and conflict in the construction of the Thatcher persona, and the complex ways in which her politics resonated with the fears and desires of the British electorate...read more