LEADER 04738oam 2200721I 450 001 9910450436003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-203-16638-8 010 $a1-134-49396-7 010 $a1-280-07010-2 010 $a0-203-28151-9 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203166383 035 $a(CKB)1000000000238348 035 $a(EBL)171077 035 $a(OCoLC)437079016 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081621 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11972569 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081621 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10113178 035 $a(PQKB)11195607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000302874 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000302874 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10274710 035 $a(PQKB)11548514 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC171077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL171077 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10099600 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7010 035 $a(OCoLC)1000436906 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000238348 100 $a20180331d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMedia spectacle /$fDouglas Kellner 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (207 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-26829-X 311 $a0-415-26828-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [179]-185) and index. 327 $aCover; Media Spectacle; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle; Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle; The Infotainment Society and Technocapitalism; From Media Culture to Media Spectacle; Signs of the Times; Cultural Studies as Diagnostic Critique; 2. Commodity Spectacle: Mcdonald's as Global Culture; Mcdonald's and Mcdonaldization; Theorizing Mcdonald's: A Multiperspectivist Approach; Mcdonald's Between the Global and the Local; Mcdonald's Between the Modern and the Postmodern; Criticizing/Resisting the Mcdonald's Spectacle 327 $aThe Case Against Mcdonald'sEvaluating Mcdonaldization; The Personal and the Political; 3. The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike; The Sports Spectacle; The Spectacle of Michael Jordan; Michael Jordan and the Sports/Race Spectacle; Michael Jordan, Nike, and the Commodity Spectacle; Third Coming, Sex Scandals, and the Contradictions of the Spectacle; Contradictions of Michael Jordan; Reading Jordan Critically; 4. Megaspectacle: The O. J. Simpson Murder Trial; Murder and Media Spectacle in Brentwood; Spectacle Culture and the Social Construction of Reality; The Verdict and the Aftermath 327 $aThe Simpson Spectacle, Identity Politics, and PostmodernizationIdentity and Identity Politics; The Simpson Effect: Contradictions of a Megaspectacle; 5. TV Spectacle: Aliens, Conspiracies, and Biotechnology in the X-Files; Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Postmodern Aesthetics in the X-Files; Series Television as Social Critique: "Trust No One"; The Postmodern Sublime, or "Is the Truth Out There"?; Postmodern Deconstruction: "I Want to Believe" but ...; Nothing Important Happened Today ... Except That Everything Changed; Representing the Unrepresentable; 6. Presidential Politics, the Movie 327 $aJfk, the MovieLbj and Nixon: Bad Movies; Ford and Carter: Indifferent Presidencies and Poor Spectacle; Ronald Reagan, the Acting President; Bush I, Mixed Spectacle, Failed Presidency; The Clinton Spectacle; Bush II, Grand Theft 2000, and Terror War; Conclusion: Democratic Politics and Spectacle Culture in the New Millennium; References; Index 330 $aDuring the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to this fascinating new book, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' - a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles - including 606 $aMass media and culture$zUnited States 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMass media and culture 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a302.23/0973 700 $aKellner$b Douglas$f1943,$0948248 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450436003321 996 $aMedia spectacle$92143302 997 $aUNINA