Media Culture Cultural Studies Identity and Politics in the Contemporary Moment | Media & Cultural Studies

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In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies Douglas Kellner argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture that socializes us and provides and plays major roles in the economy polity and social and cultural life. The book includes a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and society while providing methods of analysis interpretation and critique to engage contemporary U.S. culture. Many people today talk about cultural studies but Kellner actually does it carrying through a unique mixture of theoretical analysis and concrete discussions of some of the most popular and influential forms of contemporary media cul…