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Critical theories of mass media : then and now / Paul A. Taylor and Jan Ll. Harris.

By: Taylor, Paul A, 1967-.
Contributor(s): Harris, Jan Ll, 1969-.
Publisher: Maidenhead : McGraw Hill / Open University Press, 2008Description: xi, 233, 12 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0335218113 (pbk.); 9780335218110 (pbk.).Subject(s): Popular culture -- Study and teaching | Popular culture | Popular culture -- Philosophy | Critical theoryDDC classification: 306.071
Contents:
Part 1 Then: 1. Walter Benjamin's 'Work of art' essay - 2. Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament - 3. Theodor Adorno and the culture industry - 4. Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media - 5. Guy Debord's society of the spectacle -- Part 2 Now: introduction to part 2 - 6. The culture of celebrity - 7. Banality TV: the democratization of celebrity - 8. The politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-scene.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 Then: 1. Walter Benjamin's 'Work of art' essay - 2. Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament - 3. Theodor Adorno and the culture industry - 4. Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media - 5. Guy Debord's society of the spectacle -- Part 2 Now: introduction to part 2 - 6. The culture of celebrity - 7. Banality TV: the democratization of celebrity - 8. The politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-scene.