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| ISBN: | 0203166388
9780203166383
9781134493968
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9781134493913
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1134493959
9786610070107
6610070105
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9781280070105
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9780203281512
0415268281
041526829X
9780415268288
9780415268295
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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| Summary: | During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials 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 cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' -- a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles -- including Elvis, the X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Kellner's insightful and fascinating book draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. Media Spectacle is a brilliant dissection of contemporary society; its ongoing appetite for scandal, tragedy and perversion; and the new technologies and media that strive to feed this immense hunger. This is cultural criticism and media analysis at its best.
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| Other form: | Print version: Kellner, Douglas, 1943- Media spectacle. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415268281 041526829X
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| Standard no.: | 10.4324/9780203166383
9786610070107
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