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 155
... signs . How do signs signify ? How is meaning generated by certain kinds of inscriptions ? In the previous chapter we were concerned with the conceptual problems of thinking through how to situate representations in their social ...
... signs . How do signs signify ? How is meaning generated by certain kinds of inscriptions ? In the previous chapter we were concerned with the conceptual problems of thinking through how to situate representations in their social ...
Pagina 158
... signs important for the generation of meanings , so too is the particular combination of signs , their syn- tagmatic arrangement . Consider this : Blair In Crisis Talks With Unions To Heal Rift The same sign selection is here reordered ...
... signs important for the generation of meanings , so too is the particular combination of signs , their syn- tagmatic arrangement . Consider this : Blair In Crisis Talks With Unions To Heal Rift The same sign selection is here reordered ...
Pagina 170
... signs mobilised to signify this or any other strike may have very different meanings . Even individual signs or signifiers can be inflected in different directions . Militancy , for example , could be a sign not of some embittered ...
... signs mobilised to signify this or any other strike may have very different meanings . Even individual signs or signifiers can be inflected in different directions . Militancy , for example , could be a sign not of some embittered ...
Inhoudsopgave
Technology and New Media | 38 |
Hollywoods MediaIndustrial Complex | 61 |
Regulating the Impossible | 87 |
Copyright | |
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