Media culture : cultural studies, identity, and politics in the contemporary moment / Douglas Kellner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellner, Douglas, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--United States.

Mass media.

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 235 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2020]

Biography/History:

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA, U.S.A., and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism (2016) and American Horror Show: Election 2016 and the Ascent of Donald J. Trump (2017).

Summary:

"Media Culture 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 and plays major roles in the economy, polity, and social and cultural life. Kellner provides a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and society, while providing methods of analysis, interpretation, and critique to engage contemporary U.S. culture. 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. Studies cover a wide range of topics including: Reagan and Rambo; horror and youth films; women's films, the TV-series Orange is the New Black and Hulu's TV series on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale; the films of Spike Lee and African-American culture; Latino films and cinematic narratives on migration; pop female icons Madonna, Beyoncé, and Lady Gaga; fashion and celebrity; television news, documentary films, and recent work of Michael Moore; fantasy and science fiction, with focus on the cinematic version of Lord of the Rings, Philip K. Dick and the Blade Runner films, and the work of David Cronenberg. Situating the works of media culture in their social context, within political struggles, and the system of cultural production and reception, 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction to media culture 2020

Theory wars, ideology critique, and media/cultural studies

For a critical media/cultural studies

Social anxiety, horror, and American nightmares

Race, resistance and representation

Gender and sexuality wars

Youth, identities, and fashion

News, entertainment, and documentary as political spectacle

Fantasy, technoculture, and dystopia

Conclusion: technologies, literacies, and the future of media culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 04, 2020).

ISBN:

0-429-53444-2

0-429-52097-2

0-429-24423-1

9780429244230

OCLC:

1140356592