5 David Deacon, Natalie Fenton and Alan Bryman
From inception to reception: the natural history of a
news item

33 lva Ellen Deutchman and Anne Ellison
A star is born: the roller coaster ride of Pauline Hanson
in the news

51 Chris Atton
A reassessment of the alternative press

77 Andy Bennett
Hip hop am Main: the localization of rap music and hip
hop culture

93 Hugh Dauncey and Geoff Hare
French youth talk radio: the free market and free
speech

109 Flavia Barca
The local television broadcasting system in Italy

123 Abstracts

125 Commentary
Daya Kishan Thussu
Privatizing the airwaves: the impact of globalization on
broadcasting in India

133 Book reviews

133 Marcus Free
Media Audiences in Ireland by Mary J. Kelly and
Barbara 0' Connor (eds)

134 Aleks Sierz
From Liverpool to Los Angeles by Peter Ansorge

136 Goran Bolin
III Effects: The Media^lolence Debate by Martin
Barker and Julian Petley (eds)

139 Raymond Boyle
Sky High: The Inside Story ofBSKYB by M. Horsman

140 Anna Reading
Ghosts in the Machine: Women and Cultural Policy in
Canada and Australia by Alison Beale and Annette
Van Den Bosch

142 Books received


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MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

VOLUME 21, NOUMBER 2, MARCH 1999

Themed section: Japanese communication and
culture
Issue editors: Kazue Sakamoto and Paddy Scannell

147 Editorial

149 Shunya Yoshimi
Made in Japan': the cultural politics of 'home
electrification' in postwar Japan

173 Kazue Sakamoto
Reading Japanese women's magazines: the construction
of new identities in the 1970s and 1980s

195 Kiyoshi Shida
The Shintoist wedding ceremony in Japan: an invented
tradition


205 Ryuzo Uchida
Memory and the transformation of social experience in
modem Japan: rethinking the song 'Home'

221 Louise Phillips
Media discourse and the Danish monarchy: reconciling
egalitarianism and royalism

247 RodBrookes
Newspapers and national identity: the BSE/CJD crisis
and the British press

265 Abstracts

269 Book reviews

269 Karol Jakubowicz
Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media by Colin
Sparks with Anna Reading

273 Simon Cottle
Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context
by Bob Franklin and David Murphy (eds)

276 Dwayne Winseck
The Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting b
Michael Tracey

278 Paul Wells
Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Wamer Bros.
Animation by Kevin S. Sandier (ed.)

281 Nancy Morris
International Communication and Globalization: A
Critical Introduction by Ali Mohammadi (ed.)

283 Books received

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MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

VOL. 21, NO. 4, JULY 1999


Themed Section: Gender and cultural policy
Issue editor: Anna Reading

435 Alison C.M. Beale
From 'Sophie's choice' to consumer choice: framing
gender in cultural policy


459 Hannah Pandian
Engendering communication policy: key issues in the
international women-and-media arena and obstacles to
forging and enforcing policy

481 Anna Reading
Scarlet lips in Belsen: culture, gender and ethnicity in
the policies of the Holocaust

503 Jonathan Sterne
Television under construction: American television and
the problem of distribution, 1926-62

531 Junhao Hong and Jungkuang Sun
Taiwan's film importation from China: a political
economy analysis of changes and implications

549 Charles Fairchild
Deterritorializing radio: deregulation and the continuing
triumph of the corporatist perspective in the USA


563 Abstracts

567 Commentary
Sharon Kinsella
Pro-establishment manga: pop-culture and the balance
of power in Japan

573 Book reviews

573 Dina lordanova
International Media Research: A Critical Survey by
John Corner, Philip Schlesinger and Roger Silverstone
(eds)


575 Hillegonda C. Rietveld
The Place of Music by Andrew Leyshon, David
Matless and George Reville (eds)



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MEAIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

VOL. 21, NO. 5, SEPTEMBER 1999



579 Daniel Chomsky
The mechanisms of management control at the New
York Times

601 Marshall Battani
Organizational fields, cultural fields and art worlds: the
early effort to make photographs and make
photographers in the 19th-century USA

627 Heman Galperin
Cultural industries policy in regional trade agreements:
the cases of NAFTA, the European Union and
MERCOSUR

649 Clive Bamett
The limits of media democratization in South Africa:
politics, privatization and regulation

673 Timothy Roscoe
The construction of the World Wide Web audience

685 Abstracts



687 Commentary
Campbell McPherson
Poor policy and dubious law: pornography, satellite
television and the British state

697 Book reviews

697 Suzy Angus
British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry?
by Angela McRobbie

698 David Hendy
On Air: Methods and Meanings of Radio by Martin
Shingler and Cindy Wieringa
The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of
Radio 1 by Simon Garfield

701 Beth A. Haller
New Media and American Politics by Richard Davis
and Diana Owen

703 Books received


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