Postmodern Media Culture by Jonathan Bignell
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 e
Convincing and impressive! Outstanding analyses of Seven and The Name of the Rose offer a profound rewriting of abstract theoretical definitions of postmodernism!solid, clear and precise! the book is a valuable reminder of how postmodern theory functions at its best. Is ideally suited to push buttons and spark response from students. Convincing and impressive. ! Outstanding analyses of Seven and The Name of the Rose offer a profound rewriting of abstract theoretical definitions of postmodernism!solid, clear and precise! the book is a valuable reminder of how postmodern theory functions at its best. Is ideally suited to push buttons and spark response from students.
Jonathan Bignell is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway College, University of London. He is the author of Media Semiotics: An Introduction (1997) and the editor of Writing and Cinema (1999)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780748609888 |
| ISBN 10 | 0748609881 |
| Title | Postmodern Media Culture |
| Author | Jonathan Bignell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2000-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 248 |
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