This book analyzes the function of media examples in the work of a number of key theorists -- including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard, and McLuhan -- and discusses contemporary media production, products, and audiences, to test and reorient theoretical models of the postmodern. The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products, and popular literature and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race, and region.
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Convincing and impressive. ! Outstanding analyses of Seven and The Name of the Rose offer a profound rewriting of abstract theoretical definitions of postmodernism!solid, clear and precise! the book is a valuable reminder of how postmodern theory functions at its best. Is ideally suited to push buttons and spark response from students. Convincing and impressive. ! Outstanding analyses of Seven and The Name of the Rose offer a profound rewriting of abstract theoretical definitions of postmodernism!solid, clear and precise! the book is a valuable reminder of how postmodern theory functions at its best. Is ideally suited to push buttons and spark response from students.
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Jonathon Bignell is senior lecturer in Media Arts, Royal Holloway College, University of London.
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Critical discourses which make use of the term 'postmodern' are one of the dominant forms for addressing contemporary culture as something which is undergoing significant change, and as John Storey notes, 'popular culture is usually cited as a terrain on which these changes are to be most readily found'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern media culture, media audience research, postmodern apocalypse, contemporary media culture, postmodern cinema, media globalisation, news media culture, nostalgia films, postmodern subjectivity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, The Name of the Rose, Fredric Jameson, Action Man, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Umberto Eco, United States, Manchester University Press, Frankfurt School, New York, Third World, Cultural Logic of Late, Richard Dyer, Walter Benjamin, Anne Friedberg, Brain Stoker's Dracula, Jurgen Habermas, New World, Star Wars, The Nance of the Rose, First World, John Doe, Blade Runner, Gilles Deleuze New!
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Critical discourses which make use of the term 'postmodern' are one of the dominant forms for addressing contemporary culture as something which is undergoing significant change, and as John Storey notes, 'popular culture is usually cited as a terrain on which these changes are to be most readily found'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
postmodern media culture, media audience research, postmodern apocalypse, contemporary media culture, postmodern cinema, media globalisation, news media culture, nostalgia films, postmodern subjectivity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Gulf War, The Name of the Rose, Fredric Jameson, Action Man, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, Umberto Eco, United States, Manchester University Press, Frankfurt School, New York, Third World, Cultural Logic of Late, Richard Dyer, Walter Benjamin, Anne Friedberg, Brain Stoker's Dracula, Jurgen Habermas, New World, Star Wars, The Nance of the Rose, First World, John Doe, Blade Runner, Gilles Deleuze New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) by Jean-Francois Lyotard on 4 pages
- Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society by Howard Rheingold on 4 pages
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- An Introduction to Television Studies by Jonathan Bignell on 4 pages
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