Framing Culture : Criticism and Policy in Australia Book

	Abbreviations
	Preface
	Introduction	1
	The shape of the book	5
	The 'handmaiden' model reconsidered	9
1	A tale of two institutions	14
	The humanities in Australian tertiary education	14
	Cultural studies and criticism	18
	Cultural policy	22
	The Australian television system	28
	Symbolic policy, symbolic criticism?	32
2	Nations at the crossroads	37
	The nation between internationalism and localism	38
	Economic rationalism and cultural regulation	48
	The inquiry into Australian content on commercial television	52
	Conclusion: policy-oriented television analysis	66
3	The unworthy discourse? Advertising and national culture	71
	The inquiry into foreign content in television advertisements	73
	Cultural studies and advertising	77
	Television advertising and national culture	82
	Conclusion	101
4	The future close at hand: pay television in Australia	104
	The shape of debate on pay television in Australia	105
	Issues for cultural studies	118
	Conclusion	135
5	Shock! Horror! Violence and television	137
	Dominant paradigms	138
	Cultural studies responses	142
	Violence and public policy in Australia	150
	The Australian Broadcasting Tribunal inquiry into violence on television	152
	Implications for cultural studies	158
	Conclusion	167
6	Implications for research, education and policy	168
	Implications for research	168
	Shaping the curriculum	173
	Policy implications	181
	References	183
	Index	196