Culture Wars: The Media and the British Left

by James Curran, Ivor Gaber (Editor), Julian Petley (Editor)

Culture Wars charts the battle between two generations, one shaped by the immediate postwar period and the other by the cultural revolt of the 1960s. It was a clash that first exploded in the 1980s, when the conservative press and government ridiculed radical young politicians as the "loony left." However, the values and political agenda of the urban left made significant advances in the 1990s and 2000s when the sixties generation moved into positions of power. The book also explores how the media represents and influences social change.

320 pages, Paperback

First published July 27, 2005

About the author

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, London. He has published over 18 books, including Culture Wars: The Media and British Left (with Ivor Gaber and Julian Petley) (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), Power without Responsibility (with Jean Seaton), 6th edition (Routledge, 2003), Mass Media and Society (ed. with Michael Gurevitch), 4th edition (Arnold, 2005) and Media and Power (Routledge, 2002).