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Media spectacle

Author: Douglas Kellner
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson case was just one example of what the  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
Media spectacle.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003
(OCoLC)606931111
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Douglas Kellner
ISBN: 0415268281 9780415268288 041526829X 9780415268295 9780203166383 0203166388
OCLC Number: 50252061
Description: xiii, 192 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Media culture and the triumph of the spectacle --
Commodity spectacle: McDonald's as global culture --
The sports spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike --
Megaspectacle: the O.J. Simpson murder trial --
TV spectacle: aliens, conspiracies, and biotechnology in The X-Files --
Presidential politics, the movie.
Responsibility: Douglas Kellner.
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During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' -- a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles -- including Elvis, the X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Kellner's insightful and fascinating book draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. Media Spectacle is a brilliant dissection of contemporary society; its ongoing appetite for scandal, tragedy and perversion; and the new technologies and media that strive to feed this immense hunger. This is cultural criticism and media analysis at its best.

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