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The following is an edited transcript of Sut Jhally's keynote address at theUnion for Democratic Communications Conference, "Media Resistance,and Justice" on May 12, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. Jhally is the 2018recipient of the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for DemocraticCommunications (UDC) for outstanding and influential scholarship in thecritical political economic tradition of Dallas Smythe. Jhally discusses thedevelopment of the Media Education Foundation (MEF) and therelatedness of Stuart Hall's work to that of Smythe and UDC.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Empire and Consumption -- 1. Requiem for the American Empire -- 2. The Imperial Cannibal -- 3. American Empire and Global Communication -- 4. Power, Hegemony, and Communication Theory -- 5. The Political Economy of Culture -- 6. Advertising and the Development of Consumer Society -- 7. Circumscribing Postmodern Culture -- Part II: Dimensions of Cultural Experience -- 8. In Living Color: Race and American Culture -- 9. Cultural Conundrums and Gender: America's Present Past -- 10. Working Class Culture in the Electronic Age -- 11. Nature in Industrial Society -- Part III: Themes in Popular Culture -- 12. Sexual Politics -- 13. Action-Adventure as Ideology -- 14. Vehicles for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car -- 15. Advertising as Religion: The Dialectic of Technology and Magic -- 16. The Importance of Shredding in Earnest: Reading the National Security Culture and Terrorism -- 17. Television and Democracy -- 18. MTV: Swinging on the (Postmodern) Star -- Part IV: The Logic of Contemporary Culture -- 19. The Decline of American Intellectuals -- 20. The Myth of the Information Society -- 21. Limits to the Imagination: Marketing and Children's Culture -- 22. The Privatization of Culture -- 23. Media Beyond Representation -- 24. Postmodernism: Roots and Politics -- Notes -- List of Contributors.

It is argued that mass-spectator professional sports can play a positive role in a progressive cultural politics based on socialist principles. Marxist critics who dismiss professional sports as part of the system of legitimation of contemporary capitalism fail to acknowledge the significance of the image of fair competition portrayed by sports. The nature of sports competition is compared to the kind of competition common in the working world. It is concluded that sports reproduce the social mystification of competition by personalizing a process of social cooperation, & that mass spectator sports have the potential to be vehicles of social change. 3 References. W. Howard