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What is Postmodern Media Culture about?

Postmodern Media Culture Analyses The Function Of Media Examples In The Work Of A Number Of Key Theorists Including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard And Mcluhan, And Discusses Contemporary Media Production, Products And Audiences, To Test And Reorient Theoretical Models Of The Postmodern. The Book Deals With Film, Television, Information Technology, Consumer Products And Popular Literature, And Assesses Challenges To Conceptions Of The Postmodern Based On Gender, Race And Region.The Book Also Addresses The Confusion Of Terms In This Subject Area (Such As Modernity , Postmodernity , Postmodernism , The Postmodern ) And Integrates A Wide-Ranging Analysis Of Contemporary Media Culture With Theories Of The Postmodern. Topics Discussed Include Mass Culture, Technologies Of Media Production And Consumption, Simulation And Spectacle, Apocalypse And The End Of History, The Politics Of Consumption, Media Aesthetics And Politics, Heterogeneity And A Global Village Or A Postmodern Condition.

Author

Jonathan Bignell

Publisher

Aakar Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9788189833169