ARTICLES
Tony Bennett: Marxist Cultural Politics: In Search of "The Popular" ... 2
Jacques Durand: Rhetoric and the Advertising Image, Translated by Theo Van Leeuwen ... 29
John Hartley: Encouraging Signs: Television and the Power of Dirt, Speech, and Scandalous Categories ... 62
The Dismissal in Circulation: A Trilogy
1. Stuart Cunningham: "The Dismissal" and Australian Television ... 83
2. Stephen Crofts and Jennifer Craik: Constructing the Political in "The Dismissal" ... 91
3. Sylvia Lawson: An Audience for "The Dismissal" ... 97
Philip Bell: Drugs as News: Defining the Social ... 101
John Fiske: Surfalism and Sandiotics: The Beach in Oz Culture ... 120
Brian Copping and Graeme Turner: The Australian View of Art ... 150
Peter Gerdes: Media Institutions and Communication Problems in Southern Africa ... 163
SPINNERS
Marion Campbell: Three Ways of Deriding Difference ... 181
Michael O'Toole: Unmasking Devices ... 189
REVIEWS
Philip Bell on: Bonney and Wilson: Australia's Commercial Media ... 195
Veronica Brady on: Vincent Buckley: Cutting Green Hay; Murray Walker: Making Do ... 205
Jane Kenway Jane Kenway on: Bob Connell et al.: Making the Difference ... 213
New: 30 June, 1997 | Now: 13 November, 2019