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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... example , the advent of PCs enormously increased the productivity of scriptwrit- ers , this did not lead to them working less time to produce the same amount of product , but instead working harder to produce more product than hither to ...
... example , the advent of PCs enormously increased the productivity of scriptwrit- ers , this did not lead to them working less time to produce the same amount of product , but instead working harder to produce more product than hither to ...
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... example , which Saussurean inspired arguments concerning the primacy of language like to use , concerns snow . The Inuit ( Eskimo ) language has , on one estimate , 22 words for snow and twelve for ice . This appears to be rather more ...
... example , which Saussurean inspired arguments concerning the primacy of language like to use , concerns snow . The Inuit ( Eskimo ) language has , on one estimate , 22 words for snow and twelve for ice . This appears to be rather more ...
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... example the classes of which it consists . These classes , again , are but an empty word unless we know what are the elements on which they are based , such as wage - labour , capital , etc. These imply , in their turn , exchange ...
... example the classes of which it consists . These classes , again , are but an empty word unless we know what are the elements on which they are based , such as wage - labour , capital , etc. These imply , in their turn , exchange ...
Inhoudsopgave
Technology and New Media | 38 |
Hollywoods MediaIndustrial Complex | 61 |
Regulating the Impossible | 87 |
Copyright | |
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