Media spectacle / Douglas Kellner.
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TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.Description: xiii, 192 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0415268281
- 041526829X (pbk.)
- 302.23/0973 21
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-185) and index.
Cover; Media Spectacle; Copyright; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1. Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle; Guy Debord and the Society of the Spectacle; The Infotainment Society and Technocapitalism; From Media Culture to Media Spectacle; Signs of the Times; Cultural Studies as Diagnostic Critique; 2. Commodity Spectacle: Mcdonald's as Global Culture; Mcdonald's and Mcdonaldization; Theorizing Mcdonald's: A Multiperspectivist Approach; Mcdonald's Between the Global and the Local; Mcdonald's Between the Modern and the Postmodern; Criticizing/Resisting the Mcdonald's Spectacle. The Case Against Mcdonald'sEvaluating Mcdonaldization; The Personal and the Political; 3. The Sports Spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike; The Sports Spectacle; The Spectacle of Michael Jordan; Michael Jordan and the Sports/Race Spectacle; Michael Jordan, Nike, and the Commodity Spectacle; Third Coming, Sex Scandals, and the Contradictions of the Spectacle; Contradictions of Michael Jordan; Reading Jordan Critically; 4. Megaspectacle: The O.J. Simpson Murder Trial; Murder and Media Spectacle in Brentwood; Spectacle Culture and the Social Construction of Reality; The Verdict and the Aftermath. The Simpson Spectacle, Identity Politics, and PostmodernizationIdentity and Identity Politics; The Simpson Effect: Contradictions of a Megaspectacle; 5. TV Spectacle: Aliens, Conspiracies, and Biotechnology in the X-Files; Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Postmodern Aesthetics in the X-Files; Series Television as Social Critique: "Trust No One"; The Postmodern Sublime, or "Is the Truth Out There"?; Postmodern Deconstruction: "I Want to Believe" but ... ; Nothing Important Happened Today ... Except That Everything Changed; Representing the Unrepresentable; 6. Presidential Politics, the Movie. Jfk, the MovieLbj and Nixon: Bad Movies; Ford and Carter: Indifferent Presidencies and Poor Spectacle; Ronald Reagan, the Acting President; Bush I, Mixed Spectacle, Failed Presidency; The Clinton Spectacle; Bush II, Grand Theft 2000, and Terror War; Conclusion: Democratic Politics and Spectacle Culture in the New Millennium; References; Index.