Marxism And Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary TrendsPluto Press, 20 jul 2003 - 289 pagina's Although media studies is a popular academic discipline, there are remarkably few books that analyse it from a specifically Marxist perspective. Mike Wayne's book is ideal for all students of media studies who are interested in bringing a radical political methodology to bear on their work. He presents an accessible guide to key Marxist concepts and shows how to apply them to contemporary cultural analysis.Drawing on Marx, Lukacs, Gramsci, Habermas, Jameson and other writers, this book provides a comprehensive exposition of the key concepts required for a Marxist analysis of the media and current cultural trends. Retooling and redeeming such concepts as class, mode of production, culture industries, the state, base-superstructure, ideology, hegemony, knowledge and social interests, and commodity fetishism, this book ranges across film, television, the internet and print media. The analysis is carefully grounded in case studies ranging from digital file swapping to Disney, from reality TV show Big Brother to the spirits and spectres in such films as The Others, The Devil's Backbone and Dark City, which illuminate the fetishisms of culture and society under capital.Exploring the relevance of each concept to understanding the media, Wayne explains why Marxism is an important critical methodology for the media student to engage with. He foregrounds the theoretical and political shifts that have led to its marginalisation in recent years, and highlights how and why these trends are changing as once more, people return to Marx and Marxism to understand the world around them. |
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Pagina 36
... question of autonomy for the intelligentsia versus the question of controlling and rationalising the intelligentsia for capital is a crucial dynamic . The accumulation logic of capital can be grasped by its abstract indifference to the ...
... question of autonomy for the intelligentsia versus the question of controlling and rationalising the intelligentsia for capital is a crucial dynamic . The accumulation logic of capital can be grasped by its abstract indifference to the ...
Pagina 89
... question for policy became how to ensure ' com- petitiveness ' in the industry ( Meier and Trappel 1998 : 40 ) . As the industrial and economic dimensions of broadcasting have become paramount within media policy , so there has been a ...
... question for policy became how to ensure ' com- petitiveness ' in the industry ( Meier and Trappel 1998 : 40 ) . As the industrial and economic dimensions of broadcasting have become paramount within media policy , so there has been a ...
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... question of the internal structure of representation , the question that is of signs . How do signs signify ? How is meaning generated by certain kinds of inscriptions ? In the previous chapter we were concerned with the conceptual ...
... question of the internal structure of representation , the question that is of signs . How do signs signify ? How is meaning generated by certain kinds of inscriptions ? In the previous chapter we were concerned with the conceptual ...
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Technology and New Media | 38 |
Hollywoods MediaIndustrial Complex | 61 |
Regulating the Impossible | 87 |
Copyright | |
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