death_date era school_tradition influences main_interests notable_ideas birth_date article_title name region
10 october 2012 20th / 21st-century philosophy post-structuralism marxism post-marxism critical theory media studies sartre baudrillard marx foucault adorno althusser deleuze lefebvre intellectual history mass media new media mode of information 05 july 1941 mark poster
 mark s. poster western philosophy
mark poster

mark poster -lrb- july 5 , 1941 -- october 10 , 2012 -rrb- was professor emeritus of history and film and media studies at uc irvine , where he also taught in the critical theory emphasis .
importantly he was pivotal to `` bringing french critical theory to the u.s. , and went on to analyse contemporary media . ''
