Media Culture Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Post-Modern

Name: Media Culture Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Post-Modern
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ISBN: 9780415105705

ISBN-10: 0415105706

ISBN-13: 9780415105705

Edition: 1995

Authors: Douglas Kellner

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Media Culturedevelops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects, argueing that media culture is the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity, 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. Many people today…

Book details

List price: $52.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/24/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Douglas Kellner is the George F. Kneller Chair in the philosophy of education at UCLA and author of numerous books.



Introduction



Theory/Context/Methods



Theory Wars and Cultural Studies



Media Culture, Politics, and Ideology from Reagan to Rambo


Notes



For a Cultural Studies That is Critical, Multicultural, and Multiperspectival


Notes



Diagnostic Critique and Cultural Studies



Social Anxiety, Class, and Disaffected Youth



Black Voices from Spike Lee to Rap



Reading the Gulf War



Media Culture/Identities/Politics



Television, Advertising, and the Construction of Postmodern Identities



Madonna, Fashion, and Image



Mapping the Present from the Future from Baudrillard to Cyberpunk


Conclusion


References


Index