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Postmodern Media Culture / Jonathan Bignell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2000Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748609888
  • 9780585441887
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Media Culture and the Postmodern -- 1 Theoretical Discourses: Subjects and Objects -- 2 The End of History and Film Narrative -- 3 Writing, Judgement and Cinema -- 4 Children's Media Culture as Postmodern Culture -- 5 News Media and the Postmodern -- 6 Articulating Media from the Global to the Local -- 7 Computer-based Media -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Postmodern Media Culture examines the relationships between theories of the postmodern and contemporary media institutions, products and consumers.It analyses the function of media examples in the work of a number of key theorists including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard, and McLuhan, and discusses contemporary media production, products and audiences, to test and reorient theoretical models of the postmodern. The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and region.The book also addresses the confusion of terms in this subject area (such as 'modernity', 'postmodernity', 'postmodernism', the 'postmodern') and integrates a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary media culture with theories of the postmodern. Topics discussed include mass culture, technologies of media production and consumption, simulation and spectacle, apocalypse and the end of history, the politics of consumption, media aesthetics and politics, heterogeneity and difference, and contemporary culture as a global village or a postmodern condition.Key FeaturesOffers astute analysis of the main theories of the postmodernProvides critical studies of postmodern media cultureDiscusses the relationships between theories and the examples used to back them upExamines familiar media examples alongside new research findings.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Media Culture and the Postmodern -- 1 Theoretical Discourses: Subjects and Objects -- 2 The End of History and Film Narrative -- 3 Writing, Judgement and Cinema -- 4 Children's Media Culture as Postmodern Culture -- 5 News Media and the Postmodern -- 6 Articulating Media from the Global to the Local -- 7 Computer-based Media -- Bibliography -- Index

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Postmodern Media Culture examines the relationships between theories of the postmodern and contemporary media institutions, products and consumers.It analyses the function of media examples in the work of a number of key theorists including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard, and McLuhan, and discusses contemporary media production, products and audiences, to test and reorient theoretical models of the postmodern. The book deals with film, television, information technology, consumer products and popular literature, and assesses challenges to conceptions of the postmodern based on gender, race and region.The book also addresses the confusion of terms in this subject area (such as 'modernity', 'postmodernity', 'postmodernism', the 'postmodern') and integrates a wide-ranging analysis of contemporary media culture with theories of the postmodern. Topics discussed include mass culture, technologies of media production and consumption, simulation and spectacle, apocalypse and the end of history, the politics of consumption, media aesthetics and politics, heterogeneity and difference, and contemporary culture as a global village or a postmodern condition.Key FeaturesOffers astute analysis of the main theories of the postmodernProvides critical studies of postmodern media cultureDiscusses the relationships between theories and the examples used to back them upExamines familiar media examples alongside new research findings.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)