Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: douglas kellner

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  • THE POSTMODERN ADVENTURE
    STEVEN BEST / DOUGLAS KELLNER
    This compelling book explores the challenges to theory, politics, and human identity that we face on the threshold of the third millennium. It follows on the successor of Best and Kellner's two previous books, Postmodern Theory, acclaimed as the best critical introduction to the field - and The Postmodern Turn, which provides a powerful mapping of postmodern developments develo...

    $4,700.00

  • CRITICAL THEORY AND SOCIETY
    STEPHEN ERIC BRONNER, DOUGLAS MACKAY KELLNER
    A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School. ...

    $1,600.00

  • MEDIA CULTURE
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    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 provi...

    $1,120.00

  • THE PERSIAN GULF TV WAR
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    Douglas Kellner's Persian Gulf TV War attacks the myths, disinformation, and propaganda disseminated during the Gulf war. At once a work of social theory, media criticism, and political history, this book demonstrates how television served as a conduit for George Bush's war policies while silencing anti-war voices and foregoing spirited discussion of the complex issues involved...

    $1,200.00

  • TELEVISION AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    "This is one of the best books I've read on the changing relationship of television to society. It provides a very good analysis of theoretical perspectives on television and makes excellent use of critical theory. An accessible book that at the same time challenges the reader to think more deeply about the role of television in a formally democratic society. —Vincent Mosco Car...

    $1,320.00

  • GUYS AND GUNS AMOK
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    From the recent shootings at Virginia Tech University to the tragedies at Columbine and Oklahoma City, certain common traits can be traced through all of these events. In Guys and Guns Amok, media and cultural critic Douglas Kellner provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of these acts of domestic terrorism. Skillfully connecting each case with the current environment for ma...

    $1,320.00

  • MEDIA SPECTACLE AND THE CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    Douglas Kellner's Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: 9/11, the War on Iraq, and Election 2004 investigates the role of the media in the momentous political events of the past four years. Beginning with the role of the media in contested election of 2000, Kellner examines how corporate media ownership and concentration, linked with a rightward shift of establishment me...

    $1,360.00

  • MEDIA SPECTACLE
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to this fascinating new book, the Simpson case was just one ex...

    $1,420.00

  • ADVENTURES IN MARXIST THEORY
    DOUGLAS KELLNER
    Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the social sciences. The text argues that current historical developments and the evolution of economics, politics, society, culture, techn...

    $1,160.00