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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: A History of the Present
5. Contributors 1
6. Part I The Photograph in Conte xt
7. one Preface to Black Britain: A Photographic History 23
8. two Media and Message: The Life and Death of Picture Post 26
9. three The Social Eye of Picture 34
10. four The Determinations of News Photographs 54
11. five Reconstruction Work: Images of Post-war Black Settlement 78
12. six Vanley Burke and the “Desire for Blackness 95
13. Part II Media Studies and Cult ural Studies Introduction
14. seven Film Teaching: Liberal Studies 111
15. eight The World of the Gossip Column 122
16. nine A World at One with Itself 131
17. ten Introduction to Paper Voices 141
18. eleven Down with the Little Woman 155
19. twelve Mugging: A Case Study in the Media 162
20. thirteen Introduction to Media Studies at the Centre 169
21. fourteen The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media 177
22. Part III Television
23. fifteen Television as a Medium and Its Relation to Culture 209
24. sixteen Watching the Box 237
25. seventeen Gogglebox Gigolos 242
26. eighteen TV Types 245
27. nineteen Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse 247
28. twenty Media Power: The Double Bind 267
29. twenty-one Will Annan Open the Box? 276
30. twenty-two Which Public, Whose Service? 281
31. twenty-three Black and White in Television 297
32. Coda 315
33. twenty-four Stuart Hall’s Desert Island Discs 317
34. Index 331
35. Place of First Publication 343