Media Culture
| Book | Media Culture |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Terry Foley, Jonathon S. Epstein, Margaret J. Epstein |
| First Published by | Routledge |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Copyright Holder | Douglas Kellner |
| Typeset by | Michael Mepham |
| Printed and Bound by | Biddles Ltd |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, Great Britain; New York, NY, USA |
| Reprinted | 1995 |
| Reprinted | 1996 |
| Reprinted | 1997 |
| Reprinted | 1998 |
| Reprinted | 2000 |
| Reprinted | 2001 |
| Reprinted | 2002 |
| Reprinted | 2003 |
| Pages / Font | 357 pages / Times |
| ISBN 10 | 0-415-10570-6 |
| Barcode | 9 780415 105705 |
| Chapters | INTRODUCTION Media culture and society Cultural studies and social theory Acknowledgements Part I Theory/context/methods 1 THEORY WARS AND CULTURAL STUDIES Theory wars Approaches to cultural studies The Frankfurt School British cultural studies and its legacy A postmodern cultural studies? Notes 2 MEDIA CULTURE, POLITICS, AND IDEOLOGY: FROM REAGAN TO RAMBO Ideology and media culture: critical methods Rambo and Reagan Top Gun: Reaganite wet dream To the Gulf War! Notes 3 FOR A CULTURAL STUDIES THAT IS CRITICAL, MULTICULTURAL, AND MULTIPERSPECTIVAL For a critical multiculturalism Toward a multiperspectival cultural studies Toward a contextual cultural studies Ideology and utopia Hegemony, counterhegemony, and deconstruction Paltoon: a diagnostic critique Notes Part II Diagnostic critique and cultural studies 4 SOCIAL ANXIETY, CLASS, AND DISAFFECTED YOUTH Poltergeists, gender, and class in the Age of Reagan and Bush Diagnostic critique: from Poltergeist to Slackers and Beavis and Butt-Head Notes 5 BLACK VOICES FROM SPIKE LEE TO RAP The films of Spike Lee Rap and black radical discourse Resistance, counterhegemony, and everyday life Notes 6 READING THE GULF WAR: PRODUCTION/TEXT/RECEPTION Disinformation and the production of news The media propaganda war Warrior nation Some concluding reflections Notes Part III Media culture/identities/politics 7 TELEVEISION, ADVERTISING, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF POSTMODERN IDENTITIES Identity in postmodern theory Advertising images Situating the postmodern Notes 8 MADONNA, FASHION, AND IMAGE Fashion and identity The Madonna phenomenon Madonna between the modern and the postmodern Notes 9 MAPPING THE PRESENT FROM THE FUTURE: FROM BAUDRILLARD TO CYBERPUNK From Baudrillard to cyberpunk Necromancer and the Baudrillardian vision Mapping the future; illuminating the present Literature, social theory, and politics Notes CONCLUSION: FROM THE FUTURE BACK TO THE PRESENT Critical media pedagogy Media and cultural activism Media and cultural politics Notes References Index |
| Notes | Cover montage: Jonathon S. Epstein and Margaret J. Epstein for The Web. First published 1995 by Routledge, London Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge, New York, NY Reprinted 1998 (twice), 2000 (twice) |
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