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This book offers a fresh and accessible introduction to the relationship between media power and cultural production. By marshalling a range of theoretical perspectives from political economy and cultural studies, <b>The Media and Cultural Production</b> invites the reader to analyze the relationship between the making of meaning, political, economic and social power and the machinery of cultural production - the media.</p> <p></p> <p>The book: critically examines the notion of the `cultural industries'; examines the regulatory framework in which the cultural industries operate; looks at the impact of globalization on cultural production; explores the way in which meaning is both produced and contested.</p> <p> </p> <p><b>The Media and