Media Culture

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