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Media and Cultural Studies Keyworks

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ISBN-10: 0470658088

ISBN-13: 9780470658086

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas M. Kellner

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Revised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies.Features several new contributions with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalizationIncludes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube
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Book details

List price: $53.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 2/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 648
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.50" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

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

Preface to the Second Edition
About the Editors
Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks
Culture, Ideology, And Hegemony
Introduction to Part I
The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas
(i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of “Ideology”; (iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation)
Social Life And Cultural Studies
Introduction to Part II
(i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today
The Medium is the Message
The Commodity as Spectacle
Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club
Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory
(i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break
Encoding/Decoding
On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research
Political Economy
Introduction to Part III
Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass-Communication
On the Audience Commodity and its Work
A Propaganda Model
Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era
Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy
(i) Introduction; (ii) The Aristocracy of Culture
On Television
The Politics Of Representation
Introduction to Part IV
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Stereotyping
The Readers and their Romances
Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance
Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity
British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity
Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses
Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers
The Postmodern Turn, New Media And Social Networking
Introduction to Part V
The Precession of Simulacra
Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Feminism, Postmodernism and the “Real Me”
Postmodern Virtualities
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture
Alternative and Activist New Media: A Genre Framework
Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship d. m. boyd
Globalization And Social Movements
Introduction to Part VI
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
The Global and the Local in International Communications
The Homeland/Aztl�n
The Processes: From Nationalisms to Transnationalisms
Globalization as Hybridization
(Re)Asserting National Television and National Identity Against the Global, Regional, and Local Levels of World Television
Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach
Acknowledgments
Index