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Culture and the Media looks at the relationship between what we term 'media' and 'culture', asking the question: where does one end and the other begin? Written in a lively and accessible style, this book introduces and contextualises the range of different approaches to the study of both of these fields.Using a lively range of examples and case studies - including moral panics in the British media around punk rock in the 1970s, critiques of consumerism in the films Fight Club and American Psycho, and the YouTube-captured 'violence' of protests against student fees – Culture and the Media shows how theoretical and disciplinary debates over the meaning of the media and culture relate to our everyday cultural experiences.CONTENT- Introduction- Chapter 1: Culture is (not) the Media'Culture and the Media?' What and the What?Familiar Impossible TermsDiscourseThe Extremities of Culture(Un)Popular CultureBarbarian, Philistine and Popular CultureCulture versus the MediaCulture as MediaThe Disagreement of Culture- Chapter 2: Media is (not) the CultureMedia (and) MessagesInterconnectedness, V.1Interconnectedness V.2Interconnectedness V2.1 (Supplement)Shop AroundMedia and Cultural AgencyInterconnectedness V3: Disconnectedness- Chapter 3: Media Representation and its Cultural ConsequencesEditing Culture: From trivia to traditionMediatized Ideas, Mediatized BodiesMediatized PoliticsViolent Demonstration: A Mediatized LogicDemonstrations of ViolencePlaying War Games- Chapter 4: Filming CulturePost-Cinematic EffectsClassic Cinematic EffectsMedia Culture and Coercive Mimeticism- Conclusion: The Tangled WebAUTHORPaul Bowman is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. His previous books include Deconstructing Popular Culture, Interrogating Cultural Studies, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies and The Truth of Žižek.More information : http://us.macmillan.com/cultureandthemedia/PaulBowman