Media spectacle / / Douglas Kellner |
Autore | Kellner Douglas <1943, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media and culture - United States
Popular culture - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-16638-8
1-134-49396-7 1-280-07010-2 0-203-28151-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
The 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 The 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 Jfk, 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450436003321 |
Kellner Douglas <1943, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Media spectacle / / Douglas Kellner |
Autore | Kellner Douglas <1943, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
Disciplina | 302.23/0973 |
Soggetto topico |
Mass media and culture - United States
Popular culture - United States |
ISBN |
1-134-49395-9
0-203-16638-8 1-134-49396-7 1-280-07010-2 0-203-28151-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
The 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 The 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 Jfk, 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783438603321 |
Kellner Douglas <1943, > | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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