Critical theories of mass media
Subtitle: then and now
By: by Paul A. Taylor and Jan LL. Harris
Contributors: Harris, Jan Ll., 1969-
Publisher: McGraw Hill/Open University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780070706774
Subjects: Popular culture; Philosophy; Critical theory; Study and teaching; Mass media and culture; Mass media; Objectivity; Democratization; Media; Essay; Banality (Law); Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Then; title: 1. Walter Benjamin's 'Work of art' essay; title: 2. Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament; title: 3. Theodor Adorno and the culture industry; title: 4. Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media; title: 5. Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle; title: Pt. 2. Now; title: 6. culture of celebrity; title: 7. Banality TV: the democratization of celebrity; title: 8. politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-scene.