Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artefacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity and both social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African-American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head , the Gulf-War as cultural text, cyberpunk fiction and postmodern theory, Kellner provides a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and provide methods of analysis and critique. This superb book is a major contribution to the growing debate on culture and politics. Assured, fair-minded and constantly stimulating, Media Culture , written by one of the leading figures in the field, will be widely read and used by all those interested in the subject of culture.
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[A] book that masterfully integrates the most important theoretical insights of the field with a brilliant series of textual readings that demonstrate what it means to actually do cultural studies . . . an indispensable book.
–Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University
There is really nothing quite like this book on the market. It can be sold as both a book on theory and on method . . . Timely, important and refreshing.
–Gail Dines, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
An excellent book by any standards . . . Kellner has a particular talent for making difficult ideas easy to grasp. For this reason it is likely to be a popular teaching text, facilitating accessibility whilst simultaneously offering a significant theoretical and analytical development in the field.
–Jim McGuigan, Coventry University
–Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University
There is really nothing quite like this book on the market. It can be sold as both a book on theory and on method . . . Timely, important and refreshing.
–Gail Dines, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
An excellent book by any standards . . . Kellner has a particular talent for making difficult ideas easy to grasp. For this reason it is likely to be a popular teaching text, facilitating accessibility whilst simultaneously offering a significant theoretical and analytical development in the field.
–Jim McGuigan, Coventry University
About the Author
Douglas Kellner is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin. His most recent works are Television and the Crisis of Democracy (1990, Westview), Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (1991, Guilford Press), and The Persian Gulf TV War (1992, Westview).
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A highly relevant, prescient and insightful book,
This review is from: Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern (Paperback)
Kellner's research examines the construction of social reality by exploring and analyzing contemporary media culture. His work on understanding how cultural identity is shaped by media is an extremely useful and fascinating critique on modern society. In addition, Kellner offers a well-written overview of some of the theory behind the big ideas and concepts used to interpret our media-based world.
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This review is from: Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics between the Modern and the Post-modern (Paperback)
For some time now, Douglas Kellner has been arguing for the importance of media and culture in today's politics. This book is a great introduction for students into why he has placed such an emphasis on this issue. Kellner pulls together Marxism, postmodern theory, and British Cultural Studies in conrete analyses of media culture. The downside to this book is that the objects it analyzes are a bit dated now, but nonetheless theoretically relevant.
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Gulf War, United States, Frankfurt School, Bush Administration, Saudi Arabia, Miami Vice, New York, Ice Cube, Saddam Hussein, Spike Lee, Iron Eagle, Virginia Slims, Carol Anne, Washington Post, Laurie Anderson, Middle East, Ronald Reagan, United Press International, George Bush, Los Angeles, Soviet Union, Nation of Islam, Die Hard, Martin Luther King, Radio Raheem New!
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We live in a time of dramatic change and upheaval. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, United States, Frankfurt School, Bush Administration, Saudi Arabia, Miami Vice, New York, Ice Cube, Saddam Hussein, Spike Lee, Iron Eagle, Virginia Slims, Carol Anne, Washington Post, Laurie Anderson, Middle East, Ronald Reagan, United Press International, George Bush, Los Angeles, Soviet Union, Nation of Islam, Die Hard, Martin Luther King, Radio Raheem New!
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