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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