Media Spectacle: A Contemporary Perspective on American Society and Culture

Author: Keilner
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Douglas Keilner is one of the most influential cultural analysts of our time. He faithfully records and powerfully critiques the inequalities brought about by the media capitalist system. As one of the most influential cultural analysts of our time, Media Spectacles will become an authoritative analysis of this unprecedented "decade of chaos," and it itself is a spectacle! An authoritative analysis by one of the most influential cultural analysts of our time on America's "decade of chaos," it is itself a spectacle. This book reveals the contradictions and crises inherent in contemporary American society by analyzing sensational events created by corporations, individuals, and governments through mass media. The author calls the events amplified by the media "spectacles" and, based on this, proposes the theory of "media spectacles." Taking cases from five major themes in media coverage—business, sports, crime, film and television, and politics—the book thoroughly analyzes the cultural connotations hidden beneath the surface of media information and offers its own concerns and warnings about the future of humanity in the new millennium.