This work is a commentary and analysis of the 2000 US presidential election spectacle. It weaves together the general and the specific, the abstract and the concrete, short-term effects and (possible) long-term consequences for the future of American politics.
Explosive analysis of the role of the media in Bush's 2004 election victory.
Provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of domestic terrorism in the US, including the Columbine shootings and Oklahoma City bombing.
Through analysis of several media spectacles - including the O.J. Simpson trial, Elvis, the X-Files and the Clinton sex scandals - Kellner draws insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies.
This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the... Læs mere
Douglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war.
In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies, Douglas Kellner argues that mediated culture is now the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides and plays major roles in the economy, polity, and social and cultural life.
This book addresses the tradition of Marxism that emerged in the 1920s followed by the work of the Frankfurt School, Sartre and Althusser, and into the contemporary era with Jameson, Hardt and Negri, and other salient versions of neo-Marxism.