Amer Cultural Studies A Reader

John Hartley is Dean of Arts at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He was formerly head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies and Director of the Tom Hopkinson Centre for Media Research at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of numerous books on cultural and media studies, including Uses of Television (Routledge, 1999) and Popular Reality (Arnold, 1996). Roberta E. Pearson is Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. Prior to this she was Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.