Adorno, Theodor, 2, 27, 38, 41, 42, 54, 86, 88;
see also Frankfurt School advertising, 239, 243;
and American broadcasting, 156;
and British broad-casting, 142–6;
and economic growth, 184;
and international broadcasting, 176–80, 178–3;
structuralist analysis of, 95–96
Agatha, St, 201
agenda-setting function of the media, 237, 245, 246, 247, 259
Agnew, Spiro, 279
Althusser, Louis, 2, 3, 18, 27, 44, 45, 47, 49, 71, 72, 74, 78, 102, 107;
and the reproduction processes of capitalism, 48;
on ideological state apparatuses, 19, 83;
on the concept of interpellation, 19
see also behaviourism
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 130
Anderson, Perry, 30
Anglia Television, 134
Anglia Television Group Ltd, 134
Anglican Church, the, 215
Annan Report, 164;
on the impartiality of television news, 301–4;
on the Yesterday's Men controversy, 165
“Annenberg School of Communication, 253, 254
Aristotle, 203
articulation, theory of, 75–79
Ascherson, Neal, 134
Asquith, Herbert, 206
Associated Communications Corpora-tion, 118, 134
Associated Newspapers, 134, 139
audience:
effects of mass communica-tions on, 245, 257–1, 259;
media perceptions of, 166
Baldwin, Stanley, 207
Bank of England Nominees, 134
Barthes, Roland, 3, 18, 61, 75;
and semiology, 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96
base/superstructure, 16, 22, 43–8, 105
Baudelaire, Charles, 41
and relations to the state, 45, 82–83;
relationships between BBC and ITV, 154–9;
see also broadcasting
Beaverbrook Group, 114
Benjamin, Louis, 134
Bennett, Arnold, 34
Bensman, Joseph, 35
Berger, Peter, 62
Bernard of Clairvaux, St, 199
Bernstein, Alex, 134
Bernstein, Basil, 75
Bernstein, Cecil, 134
Bernstein, Lord, 134
Bernstein family trusts, 134
Blumler, Jay, 7, 14, 147, 195–195, 210
Bon, Gustave Le, 27
Bond, James, structuralist analysis of, 91–7
Bourdieu, Pierre, 75
ideology of, 260
bourgeoisie, the, 37, 40, 42, 43, 46, 102
Boyd, Gavin, 134
Boyd-Barrett, Oliver, 111
Bramson, Leon, 27
Brecht, Bertolt, 43
Breichner, J., 267
Brewer, J., 217
broadcasting, 82;
and relations to the state, 115–1, 152–7, 157–2;
and the British political system, 209–16, 222–8;
development of commercial broadcasting in Britain, 154–8
Brooke, C, 204
Brougham, Lord, 205
Brown, William, 134
Brunce, Richard, 134
bureaucracy, theories of, and the media, 159–70
Burgelin, O., 89
Burnham, James, 124
Burns, Tom, 149, 156, 158, 164, 169
Buscome, Edward, 97
Camargo, M., 75
Campaign for Relief of Need, 275
Campbell, Lord, 218
Cantril, H., 88
capitalism, 2, 21, 37, 40, 46, 86, 123, 131, 138, 176, 183;
and relationships to the media, 121, 128, 130;
Carey, James, viii
Carnoy, M., 191 Carter, President J., 100
chain reaction model of communication effect, 237
Chandler, Raymond, 92
Charlemagne, Emperor, 202
Chibnall, S., 8
Chomsky, Noam, 66
Christ, Jesus, 199
Clark, Robert, 134
and class relationships, 100, 235;
capitalist class, 120, 121, 125, 128, 131, 133, 137, 139, 140;
consciousness, 137;
see also bourgeoisie, proletariat, middle class and working class
Coase, R.L., 153
cognition, media effects on, 236–1, 245
Collins, Norman, 134
Complaints Commission, 164
commercial press, development of, 215–5
commercial television, rise of, 154–8
communications industry, ideology of, 121
Communist Party, 38
Community Relations Council, 267
Comstock, G., 234
Comte, Auguste, 120
Congress, US, 252
Connell, B., 123
consciousness:
critical, 138;
popular, 144;
public, 237
consensus:
consent, the production of, 80–8
Conservative Party, 207, 242, 248
conspiracy theory, 139
Constable, John, 94
Constantine, Emperor, 199
consumer sovereignty, 140–5, 144
consumerism, the media and economic development, 183–7
content analysis, 59, 88–3, 246, 254;
analysis/semiology compared, 90
Coser, Lewis, 162
Counter-Reformation, 215
Coward, Rosalind, 67
creativity, and autonomy, 160, 162
cultivation analysis, 238
cultural imperialism, 177, 179, 184
cultural pluralism, 181
cultural theorists, 27, 30, 34, 41
and approaches to the study of the media, 21–8
culturalists, and structuralism, 22
culture, 18, 22, 36, 40, 41, 49, 99, 179, 255;
imports of, 176, 177, 178, 190;
industry, the, 2, 21, 27, 37–7, 86, 102, 120–6, 125;
see also folk, mass and popular culture
Curran, James, 2, 2, 13, 142, 143, 195
Daily Express, 33, 134, 264–9, 268, 271, 275
Daily Telegraph Ltd, 134
Darna, Charles, 127
dependency theory, 171–5, 174, 176, 177, 189, 190, 231
determinism, 101, 102, 140, 176, 178
deviants, media representations of, 57–5, 62, 293–301
discourse theory, 2, 70–72, 105;
dissonance theory, 6
Dodd, William, 205
Dowing, J., 275
Durkheim, Emile, 27, 58, 159–3
Eastern Counties Newspapers, 134
effects studies, 7, 10, 51, 53–9, 238, 258;
see also media effects
Eisenhower, Dwight, 249
Eisenstein, E., 212
election broadcasting, 243
election campaigns, study of, 239–4, 242, 244, 248, 249, 253;
see also general elections and presidential elections
élites, 27, 32, 33, 36, 104, 111;
and control over media, 180, 181, 239;
élite theory and pluralism, 124–9;
in the Third World, 173, 176, 181, 184–9;
Elizabethan Settlement, the, 215
Ellis, John, 67
Elton, G.R., 214
and theory in media research, positions compared, 6–10, 18
Engels, Frederick, 16, 38, 43, 79
Epstein, E., 157
ethnomethodology, 62
ETV, 188
Evening News, 270
false consciousness, 21, 46, 102, 107
Federal Communications Commission, 152
feudal society, 33
film noir, 90
Financial Times, 114
folk culture, 32;
Fox, Charles James, and Libel Act of 218
Franco, General Francisco, 286–90
Frankfurt School, 2, 18, 27, 43, 53–9, 102;
and the culture industry, 40, 86–2;
critique of liberal pluralism, 41–6
Freud, Sigmund, 41
Friedrich, Carl, 32
Galbraith, John, 124
Gallagher, Margaret, 111
gangster films, study of, 89, 91;
see also film noir
gatekeeper, concept of, 150
Gaudet, H., 239
General Elections, studies of (1959), 239–4, 248;
see also election campaigns
Giddens, Anthony, 120
Gill, Jack, 134
Glasgow Media Group, 64, 301–6
Golding, Peter, vi, 13, 20, 21, 63
Gone With the Wind, 156
Grade, Sir Lew (later Lord), 118, 134
Gramsci, Antonio, 3, 18, 22, 49, 70, 74, 76, 79–5, 105, 107, 298, 301;
and com-mon sense, 68;
see also hegemony
Granada Television, 134
Greeley, Horace, 127
Green, Sir Hugh Carlton, 276
Greene, Sir Hugh, 157
Gregory I, Pope, 202
Gregory VII, Pope, 204
Grundberg, Carl, 38
Guarantee Nominees, 134
Guardian, 134, 268–2, 270, 274–8
Guevera, Che, 40
Gurevitch, Michael, 2, 2, 7, 14, 147, 195–195, 210
Gurney, May Holdings, 134
Hall, Stuart, 2–3, 8, 18, 62–8, 75, 79, 88;
and the analysis of news photographs, 95;
and the definition of cultural studies, 21–22;
et al. and Policing the Crisis, 105–10, 298–3
Halloran, James, vi
Hanson, Sir James, 134
Heath, P., 214
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 41, 42, 45
hegemony, 3, 22, 49, 105, 111, 235;
post-war crisis of, 298;
Hemingway, Ernest, 34
Henry IV, Kaiser, 204
Henry VIII, 212
Himmelweit, Professor, 302
Hiro, Dilip, 264
Hitler, Adolf, 38, 286–90, 291
Hobbes, John, 212
Hoggart, Richard, 21, 150, 301
see also Frankfurt School
Hutchinson Publishing Group Ltd, 115
iconography, 94
ideology:
and the class struggle within language, 71–9;
and the media, 13, 18–4, 21, 23, 38, 43, 133, 134, 139–4, 234, 238;
and the structuralist study of language, 61–67;
class basis of, 102;
concepts and theories of, 4, 38, 43–8, 46, 88, 93, 96, 100, 105;
in film and television, 99–3, 103–8;
professional, 13–14, 15, 149, 159, 176;
reductionist analysis of, 99–3, 101, 102;
the end of ideo-logy, 55–2, 59
Illiffe, Lord, 114
Imperial Tobacco Pension Fund, 134
Independent Television Corporation, 167
industrial society, theories of, 120, 123, 144
instrumentalism and media theory, critique of, 121–8, 131, 133, 137–3
interactionism, 62
Ironside, 100
Isaacs, Jeremy, 277
ITV, 83
Jacobson, Roman, 63
James, St, 199
Janowitz, Morris, 35
John, King, 209
Johnson, Richard, 18
Jones, C., 280
Kantianism, 65
Kantorowicz, E.H., 200
Kemsley, Lord, 206
Kerner Commission, 268
Keynesianism, 39
Klute, 103
Kotz, D., 129
Kushnick, L., 275
Laclau, Ernesto, 3, 76, 79, 105, 301
language:
referential theories of, 70–7;
structuralist analysis of, 61–67;
theories of and the media, 284–8;
see also linguistics
law and order, media representations of, 298–2
Lazarsfeld, Paul, 6, 7, 9, 35, 53, 149, 239, 240
Leavis, Q.D., 34
Leeds Mercury, 219
Lent, J.A., 178
Lerner, D., 183
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 3, 18, 61–7, 65–3, 90
Liberal Party, 248
liberal-pluralism, 3, 27, 35, 36, 37, 41, 150, 234;
and relationships to Marx-ism, viii, 2–2, 5, 18;
see also pluralism
linguistics, 2, 3, 16, 18, 47, 61, 89–5, 104–8
Lipset, Seymour, 55
Lloyd George, David, 206
Lloyds Bank, 41
Lloyd's Weekly, 205
London Weekend Television, 115, 127, 134
Luckmann, Thomas, 62
Luther, Martin, 212
LWT (Holdings) Ltd, 134
and the classic realist text, 103–8
McCombs, M., 7
McCorn, R., 9
McKensey Report, 165
Maisel, R., 197
managerial revolution, 124–9, 126–2, 130
managerialism, theory of, 128–3, 130, 132
Manchester Evening News, 134, 274
Maoism, 40
Marcuse, Herbert, 2, 8, 9, 38, 39–4, 41;
see also Frankfurt School
Margaret, St, 201
Marx, Karl, 33, 37, 38, 41, 137;
and the reproduction processes of capitalism, 48;
base superstructure metaphor, 16, 43–8;
experiences as a journalist, 126-vi;
media ownership in capitalist societies, 120–7;
on ideology, 16, 43–9, 79–4, 100–5
Marxism, 37, 42, 43, 45, 48, 171;
and alliance with semiology, 93, 100, 103, 105–9;
and capitalism, 47–2, 101–5, 124, 128–6, 253;
and ideology, viii, 2–3, 16–4, 23, 27, 43–46, 49, 94, 100–4, 106
(see also ideology);
and the media, vi–viii, 2–2, 5, 7, 8, 13, 13–16, 27–2, 38, 49, 86, 103, 105, 111, 138, 150, 234–40, 253, 257–4;
relationship to liberal-plura-lism, vi–viii, 2–2, 5, 10, 14–1, 18–4, 21
(see also neo-Marxism);
reproduction processes of, 47–2
mass communications, 6, 7, 16, 25–2, 86
mass media:
and the medieval Catholic Church, power compared, 221–8;
effects of, 147, 190, 231, 232, 235, 236, 238, 240, 241, 257, 259;
outlook and early American media research, 32–37;
theories of, 2, 6, 27–2, 38, 52–8, 57, 238
Matisse, Henri, 41
Matta, F.R., 180
Matthews, Victor, 134
Matza, David, 62
media:
allocative control of, 117–5, 128, 130, 134;
and social change, 236;
and the relationship to ownership, 117–3, 123, 140–5, 176, 178, 235
(see also ownership);
as definers of social reality, 22, 58–5, 195–1, 253–60, 259–4, 284–306;
control, nature of, 149, 152, 156, 158, 169;
effects on violence, 8–9, 13, 88, 106, 190, 231;
effects on voting behaviour, 9–13
(see also election campaigns);
imperialism, 177;
interactions with socio-political environment, 14–1;
media control over communication channels, 149, 163, 176;
messages, 6, 10, 13, 15, 25, 35, 36, 88, 94–9, 147, 234, 259–3;
operational control of, 117;
power of, 5–23, 111–16, 231, 234–40, 239, 241;
research, the ‘critical para—digm’, 60–83;
Merton, Robert, 57
methodological individualism, 235
M & G (Unit Trust), 134
Midland Bank Trust, 134
Mill, James, 219
Mill, John Stuart, 27;
and the tyranny of the majority, 28–4
mods and rockers, media representa-tions of, 296–298
Moerbeke, William of, 203
Montagu, Samuel (Nominees), 134
Monty Python, 164
Morning Advertizer, 121
Morning Post, 121
Morning Star, 139
Mosca, Gaetano, 27
Muir, Frank, 128
Mussolini, Benito, 288
myth, 61, 66, 67, 70, 93, 94, 97, 179, 253
National Coal Board Pensions, 134
Neilsen Marketing Research Territory, 156
neo-Kantianism, 65
neo-Marxism, 112, 123, 130, 140, 173, 176
New York Daily Tribune, 127
New York Times, 274
news:
frameworks and the reporting of race, 272–9;
values and the reporting of race, 266–75
News International Ltd, 134
Newton, F., 161
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 27;
and mass society theory, 29
Nin, Andre, 291
Northcliffe, Lord, 206
Northern Ireland, television coverage of, 158
Norwich Union Life Insurance, 134
Now Magazine, 127
Ortega y Gasset, José, 29
ownership of the media, 21, 113–47, 149;
legal and economic aspects, 117–3, 138–3;
of media conglomerates, 113-14, 134–1;
of newspapers, 114;
of the record industry, 115
Pahl, R., 117
Pakula, Alan, 103
Panofsky, E., 94
Panorama, 296
papacy, and press barons, power compared, 207
Pareto, Vilfredo, 27
Paris-Match, 97
Parsons, Talcott, 55
Partido Obrero de Unificacion Marxista (POUM), 291–4
Pearl Assurance, 134
Pearson, S., and Son, 114, 137, 139
Pêcheux, Michel, 71
Pentagon Papers, 134
Perry, James, 205
Peter, St, 199
phenomenology, 61
Picayune Times, 268
Pilkington Committee, 158
Plato, 41
pluralism, vi–viii, 2–3, 8, 13, 15, 36, 235;
and conception of élites, 125;
and neo-Weberianism, 172, 173;
criticisms of, 51–57, 59–5, 80, 100, 104;
relationship to Marxism, 14, 15, 18–4, 21, 257–1
political communication, effects of, 241, 243, 244, 249
approach to the study of the media, 20–6
Popper, Sir Karl, 42
positivism, 2–2, 35, 52, 177, 190
power, contrasting models of, 59–5, 118–4, 123
presidential elections, study of, 242; 239, 240–5;
press, the:
and the British political system, 209–16, 221;
radical, and working class politics, 216, 220–6
press barons, power of, 205–12
Presse, Die, 121
print culture, and the rise of Protestan-tism, 214–20
proletariat, the, 46
propostion, the entailment of, 70–5
Prudential Assurance, 134
Freudian, 67;
Lacanian, 67
Public Enemy, 89
Punch, 121
race, media definitions of, 195, 264–85, 276–82
Radiotelevision Italiana, 167
Reagan, President Ronald, 100
realism, classic realist text, 103–8;
Reeves, B., 232
reflection theory, 47, 59, 100, 284–8
Reform Bill (1867), 30
Reich, Wilhelm, 27
and the role of broadcasting, 152–6
Resler, H., 134
Richfield, Atlantic, 114, 131, 134
Robinson, John, 249
Robinson, Michael J., 251, 252, 259
Roman Catholic Church and control over medieval communications, 198-4, 207–14
Romulus Films, 134
Royal Commission on the Press, 137, 140
Russian Formalism, 91
Saint-Simon, Claude Henri, 120, 124
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the, 61
satellite communications, 174, 176, 177
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 18, 61, 63, 90, 93, 284
science fiction, 93
Scottish Daily Express, 274
Scottish Daily News, 142
Scrutiny Group, 34
Seaton, Jean, 13
Seiden, Martin, 125
semiology/semiotics, 2, 3, 16, 49, 61, 79, 88–3, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96–2, 102, 104, 107, 190
Seymour-Ure, C., 278
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 41
multi-accentuality of, 72
signification, 4, 19, 22, 47, 49, 89, 97, 99, 104, 107, 174
signifier/signified, 85, 90–7, 95, 97
signifying practice, 59, 72–8, 103;
systems, 43, 44, 45, 47, 88, 90, 93, 94, 96, 105, 106, 107
Silvester, Pope, 199
Simpson, George, 297
social conflict, 120, 245, 251
social stratification, 235
socio-cultural imperialism, 174
sociological tradition, the, 29
South London Press, 272
Southern Television Ltd, 134
Spanish Civil War, 195, 286–95
Spy Who Loved Me, The, 92
Star, 142
Star Wars, 92
Starsky & Hutch, 100
Stevenson, Adlai, 249
Stewart, Sir Ian, 134
structural analysis, 91, 119–5, 123;
see also functionalism
structuralism, viii, 2–3, 16–8, 49, 62, 68, 89, 90, 94, 102, 105, 107;
see also language, structuralist analysis of
subcultures, 57
subject, theories of, 67, 72, 76, 105
Telefusion Ltd, 139 television: bardic function of, 97–3;
Thames Valley Broadcasting, 129
That Was the Week that Was, 164
Thompson, E.P., 21
Times, The, 41, 137, 268–2, 271, 278
Tocqueville de, Alexis, 27
Tönnies, Ferdinand, 27
Toscanini, Arturo, 42
Townsend, Marquis of Kaynham, 134
Tracey, Michael, 150, 155, 158, 164, 166, 169
Trade Unions, and the media, 64, 78–3, 96, 302–6
Trafalgar House, 114;
BPM Holdings, 134
Trenaman, J., 9
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 183
Trident Television Ltd, 134
Tunstall, Jeremy, 147, 164, 268
Tyne Tees Television, 134
Ullmann, W.W., 200
UNESCO, 279
United Empire Party, 207
United Newspapers, 134
Universal Instruments, 114
University of Colombia, 38
uses and gratification studies, 237
Veron, E., 66
Vidich, Arthur J., 35
Vološinov, V.N.: and ideology, 72–76;
Vroey, M.De, 130
Wall, Max, 273
Watergate, 251
Weber, Max:
on bureaucracy, 159;
on the protestant ethic, 183
Wedell, G., 178
Wednesday Play, The, 164
Weimar Germany, 38
Wells, A., 184
Wemyss, Earl of, 134
West Unit Nominees, 134
Westergaard, J., 134
Western Daily Press, 274
Westinghouse Electric, 134
Westminister Review, 219
Whale, John, 125
Whannel, Garry, 8
Wheldon, Huw, 155
White, David, 150
Wilkes, John, and the struggle for press freedom, 217–3, 219
Wilkinson, John, 134
Williams, Raymond, 18, 21, 101, 102, 144, 153
Wilson, H.H., 154
Winkler, J., 117
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 279
working class, 30, 38, 99, 102, 143, 144, 235
World War, First, 5
Yesterday's Men, controversy over, 164–8, 169
Yorkshire Television, 134
Zeitlin, M., 129