You are strongly recommended to keep up with the reading on a weekly basis, and certainly to have read in preparation for seminars. You will be expected to be familiar with all the books by the time the exam comes around. At the SU bookshop, you may find our books scattered among the Communications, Art, Sociology and Cultural Studies sections. Each week I will give you an additional handout listing suggested extra reading which will help you find out more about that week's topic. It will also help you if you want to write a term essay in that subject area.
Books are expensive, and student resources are small.
Nevertheless, you should still think about buying at least some of the books on the list. Not only will it help you with this course, but it will also help you to build your own library for use during not only your academic but also your professional career. Each of the books listed is something of a classic, and so will be valuable to you long after graduation. Do think about it. The films and programmes featured in this course will be available for study at the multi-media study room in the Undergraduate Centre.