A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In this book, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition, and consumption of global films and television, with an eye to critical political economy and cultural studies.
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In this book, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the o...
The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters and comics; and in State Department ads, broadcasts, and websites. Hearts and Mines examines the US Empire's culture industry, a nexus between the US security state and US media firms, and the source of entertainment that promotes American strategic interests around the world. Building on Herbert I. Schiller's classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees explores how symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships...
The US security state is everywhere in cultural products: in army-supported news stories, TV shows, and video games; in CIA-influenced blockbusters...
