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(More customer reviews)Kellner's research examines the construction of social reality by exploring and analyzing contemporary media culture. His work on understanding how cultural identity is shaped by media is an extremely useful and fascinating critique on modern society. In addition, Kellner offers a well-written overview of some of the theory behind the big ideas and concepts used to interpret our media-based world.
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Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artefacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that mediaculture is the dominant form of culture which socializes usand provides materials for identity and both social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African-American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head , the Gulf-War as cultural text, cyberpunk fiction and postmodern theory, Kellner provides a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and provide methods of analysis and critique. This superb book is a major contribution to the growing debate on culture and politics. Assured, fair-minded and constantly stimulating, Media Culture , written by one of the leading figuresin the field, will be widely read and used by all those interested in the subject of culture.
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