How do children play video games? Do games make children violent? How does gender figure in game play? These questions often concern parents and professionals alike. Valerie Walkerdine offers an innovative and original way of approaching the study of children and multimedia, using new developments i[...]

When she's itty bitty and blond, wearing ribbons and curls and an aura of money, she's adorable and vulnerable, the tiny, innocent heart of our culture. But when the little girl comes from the working class, she's something else. Just what, and why so little is said about it, are the questions Valer[...]

A companion volume to "Mass Media and Society", this textbook is an introduction to cultural studies, written by influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour through the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity and theories of ide[...]