Ulteriori informazioni
Klappentext Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film! television! music! and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity in terms of both 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 talk about cultural studies! but Kellner actually does it! carrying through a unique mixture of theoretical analysis and concrete discussions of some of the most popular and influential forms of contemporary media culture. Criticizing social context! political struggle! and the system of cultural production! Kellner develops a multidimensional approach to cultural studies that broadens the field and opens it to a variety of disciplines. He also provides new approaches to the vexed question of the effects of culture and offers new perspectives for cultural studies. Anyone interested in the nature and effects of contemporary society and culture should read this book. Kellner argues that we are in a state of transition between the modern era and a new postmodern era and that media culture offers a privileged field of study and one that is vital if we are to grasp the full import of the changes currently shaking us. Zusammenfassung First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis! an informa company. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Theory/Context/Methods 2. Media Culture! Politics! and Ideology: Hollywood Film in the Age of Media Politics 3. Diagnostic Critique! Deconstruction! and Social Anxiety: Fear and Trembling in the Middle Class and Disaffected Youth 4. For a Multiperspectival Cultural Studies: Black Voices From Spike Lee to Rap Part II: Media Culture/Identities/Politics 5. Reading the Gulf War: Production/Text/Reception 6. Miami Vice! Advertising! and the Construction of Postmodern Identities 8. Mapping the Present From the Future: Baudrillard and Cyberpunk Conclusion ...
