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050 00 $aP92.U5$bK38 1995
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100 1 $aKellner, Douglas,$d1943-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81046595
245 10 $aMedia culture :$bcultural studies, identity, and politics between the modern and the postmodern /$cDouglas Kellner.
260 $aLondon ;$aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c1995.
300 $aix, 357 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [342]-351) and index.
505 0 $a1. Theory Wars and Cultural Studies -- 2. Media Culture, Politics, and Ideology: From Reagan to Rambo -- 3. For a Cultural Studies that is Critical, Multicultural, and Multiperspectival -- 4. Social Anxiety, Class, and Disaffected Youth -- 5. Black Voices from Spike Lee to Rap -- 6. Reading the Gulf War: Production/Text/Reception -- 7. Television, Advertising, and the Construction of Postmodern Identities -- 8. Madonna, Fashion, and Image -- 9. Mapping the Present from the Future: From Baudrillard to Cyberpunk -- Conclusion: From the Future Back to the Present.
520 $aMedia 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.
520 8 $aThrough 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.
520 8 $aMany 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.
520 8 $aHe 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.
650 0 $aMass media$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081877
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140482
852 00 $bglx$hP92.U5$iK38 1995