03195nam 22006973u 450 991045814090332120210510231549.01-281-33128-70-335-23528-X(CKB)1000000000401814(EBL)332731(OCoLC)606483913(MiAaPQ)EBC332731(EXLCZ)99100000000040181420130923d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||Critical theories of mass media then and now /Paul A. Taylor and Jan Ll. HarrisMaidenhead, Berkshire, England ;New York McGraw Hill/Open University Press2008©20081 online resource (263 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-335-21811-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front cover; Title page; Half title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Content page; Acknowledgements; Chapter outlines; Introduction:Cultural populism and critical theory; Part 1: Then; Chapter1: Walter Benjamin's Work of art essay; Chapter 2: Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament; Chapter 3: Theodor Adorno and the culture industry; Chapter 4: Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media; Chapter 5: Guy Debord's society of the spectacle; Part 2: Now; Introduction to part 2; Chapter 6: The culture of celebrity; Chaptera 7: Banality TV: the democratization of celebrityChapter 8: The politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-sceneConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back coverWith the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a neutral or benign part of contemporary life. This book explores the relationship between the mass media and the dis-empowering nature of commodity culture.Mass media criticismMass media criticismHistoryMass media and cultureMass mediaSocial aspectsMass mediaObjectivityPopular culturePopular culturePhilosophyPopular cultureStudy and teachingCritical theoryMass media and culturePopular cultureElectronic books.Mass media criticism.Mass media criticismHistory.Mass media and culture.Mass mediaSocial aspects.Mass mediaObjectivity.Popular culture.Popular culturePhilosophy.Popular cultureStudy and teaching.Critical theory.Mass media and culture.Popular culture.306306.071Taylor Paul A.1967-888283Harris Jan Ll.1969-922485AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910458140903321Critical theories of mass media2133458UNINA