The Cultural Industries - Softcover

`A wonderfully clear, insightful and original synthesis of work on the cultural industries, representing the perspectives of the new generation of researchers' - James Curran, Goldsmiths College, University of London

`The Cultural Industries is an indispensable guide to the main forces at work in the production of media today. This lucid, careful, and sophisticated book orders the entire field, for the US as well as Europe, and at one stroke becomes the state of the art, the standard' - Todd Gitlin, New York University

`David Hesmondhalgh offers us a valuable resource and a timely provocation... [A] very well organised and clearly written introduction to this increasingly important area of study. Students and teachers wanting a comprehensive and accessible guide to what we know and where we might be heading will welcome it with open arms... His book deserves to be required reading on every media and cultural studies course' - Graham Murdock, University of Loughborough

' The arguments within [this book] provide both a timely overview of current scholarship and offer a unique multidisciplinary approach to the topic in a clear and concise manner' - TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies