Culture and the Media

ISBN-13: 9780230277120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 104 str.

Paul Bowman

Opis

This book sets out the range of approaches to Culture and Media in a simple and direct manner that is comprehensible to a wide student readership. It introduces the complexity of culture and shows how theoretical and disciplinary debates over the meaning of the media and culture relate to everyday cultural experience.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: Culture is (not) the Media 'Culture and the Media?' What and the What? Familiar Impossible Terms Discourse The Extremities of Culture (Un)Popular Culture Barbarian, Philistine and Popular Culture Culture versus the Media Culture as Media The Disagreement of Culture Chapter 2: Media is (not) the Culture Media (and) Messages Interconnectedness, V.1 Interconnectedness V.2 Interconnectedness V2.1 (Supplement) Shop Around Media and Cultural Agency Interconnectedness V3: Disconnectedness Chapter 3: Media Representation and its Cultural Consequences Editing Culture: From trivia to tradition Mediatized Ideas, Mediatized Bodies Mediatized Politics Violent Demonstration: A Mediatized Logic Demonstrations of Violence Playing War Games Chapter 4: Filming Culture Post-Cinematic Effects Classic Cinematic Effects Media Culture and Coercive Mimeticism Conclusion: The Tangled Web.

O autorze

PAUL BOWMAN is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. His previous books include Deconstructing Popular Culture, Interrogating Cultural Studies, Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies and The Truth of Žižek.

Blurb

Culture and the Media looks at the relationship between what we term 'media' and 'culture', asking the question: where does one end and the other begin? Written in a lively and accessible style, this book introduces and contextualises the range of different approaches to the study of both of these fields.

Using a lively range of examples and case studies - including moral panics in the British media around punk rock in the 1970s, critiques of consumerism in the films Fight Club and American Psycho, and the YouTube-captured 'violence' of protests against student fees – Culture and the Media shows how theoretical and disciplinary debates over the meaning of the media and culture relate to our everyday cultural experiences.


PAUL BOWMAN teaches media and cultural studies at Cardiff University. His other books include: Interrogating Cultural Studies (2003), The Truth of Žižek (2006), Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (2007), Deconstructing Popular Culture (2008), Theorizing Bruce Lee (2010), The Rey Chow Reader (2010), Reading Rancière (2011), and Beyond Bruce Lee (2013).


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