The book "Media Studies: "Texts, Production and Context" by Paul Long and Tim Wall from Birmingham City University is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related subjects.

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CONTENTS

• Section One: Media Texts and Meanings

Chapter One: How Do Media Make Meaning?

Chapter Two: Organising Meaning: Genre and Narrative

Chapter Three: Media Representations

Chapter Four: Reality Media

‘Analysing media texts’

• Section Two: Producing Media

Section Introduction

Chapter Five: The Business of Media

Chapter Six: Media Regulation and Policy

Chapter Seven: Media Production in a Global Age

• Section Three: Media Audiences

Chapter Eight: Producing Audiences – what do media do to people?

Chapter Nine: Investigating Audiences – what people do with media

• Section Four: Media and Social Contexts

Chapter Ten: Media Power

Chapter Eleven: Conceptualising Mass Society

Chapter Twelve: The Modern and the Postmodern

Chapter Thirteen: Consumer Society and Advertising

• Section Five: Historiography

Chapter Fourteen: Media Histories

Conclusion: Doing Your Media Studies