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050		4	_aP96.C76 _bT39 2008
082	0	4	_a306.071 _222 _bTAY 2008
100	1		_aTaylor, Paul A., _d1967- _91280
245	1	0	_aCritical theories of mass media : _bthen and now / _cPaul A. Taylor and Jan Ll. Harris.
246	1		_iTitle on author's manuscript [re. author]: _aCritical theories of mass media culture.
260			_aMaidenhead, Berkshire, England ; _aNew York : _bMcGraw Hill/Open University Press, _cc2008.
300			_axi, 233, (12 p. index) ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-233) and index.
505	0		_aPart I. Then. Walter Benjamin's 'Work of art' essay ; Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament ; Theodor Adorno and the culture industry ; Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media ; Guy Debord's Society of the spectacle -- Part II. Now. The cult-ure of celebrity ; Banality TV : the democratization of celebrity ; The politics of banality : the ob-scene as the mis-en-scène.
520	1		_a"With the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a largely neutral or benign part of contemporary life. Even when criticisms are voiced, the media chooses how and when to discuss its own inadequacies. More radical external critiques are often excluded and media theorists are frequently more optimistic than realistic about the negative aspects of mass culture." "This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship between the mass media and the disempowering nature of commodity culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass culture by comparing past and present critiques." "The book begins by introducing the critical insights from major theorists from the past - Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Marshall McLuhan and Guy Debord. Paul Taylor and Jan Harris then apply these insights to recent provocative writers such as Jean Baudrillard and Slavoj Zizek, and discuss the links between such otherwise apparently unrelated contemporary events as the Iraqi Abu Ghraib controversy and the rise of reality television." "Critical Theories of Mass Culture is a key text for students of cultural studies, communications and media studies, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.
650		0	_aMass media criticism. _9841
650		0	_aMass media criticism _xHistory. _91281
650		0	_aMass media and culture. _91282
650		0	_aMass media _xSocial aspects. _9947
650		0	_aMass media _xObjectivity. _91283
650		0	_aPopular culture. _91246
650		0	_aPopular culture _xPhilosophy. _91284
650		0	_aPopular culture _xStudy and teaching. _91285
650		0	_aCritical theory. _91286
700	1		_aHarris, Jan Ll., _d1969- _91287
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aTaylor, Paul A., 1967- _tCritical theories of mass media. _dMaidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2008 _w(OCoLC)606483913.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aTaylor, Paul A., 1967- _tCritical theories of mass media. _dMaidenhead, Berkshire, England ; New York : McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2008 _w(OCoLC)607715697.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016242237&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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