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Media and Cultural Studies

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ISBN-10: 1405132582

ISBN-13: 9781405132589

Edition: 2nd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas M. Kellner

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Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication. A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology in this dynamic and multidisciplinary field. New contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social Movements. Retains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and "makers" of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusser on ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; Raymond Williams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere; McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and…    
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Book details

List price: $54.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 800
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 3.036
Language: English

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

Adventures in media and cultural studies : introducing the key works
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)
(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
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
Visual pleasure and narrative cinema
Stereotyping
Eating the other : desire and resistance
British cultural studies and the pitfalls of identity
Under western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses
Hybrid cultures, oblique powers
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
Disjuncture and difference in the global cultural economy
The global and the local in international communications
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