No introductory reading list in the field would be complete without a Fiske' - Sociology In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit, implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the ...

A comprehensive introduction to television studies. Fiske analyzes both the economic and cultural aspects of television and investigates it in terms of both theory and text based criticism.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents the political history of the United States from the end of the Revolutionary War to the adoption of the Federal Constitution.