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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 lega...
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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. |
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 192 S. |
| ISBN: | 0415268281 041526829X |
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Contents
Preface and acknowledgments vii
1 Media culture and the triumph of the spectacle 1
Guy Debord and the society of the spectacle 2
The infotainment society and technocapitalism 11
From media culture to media spectacle 15
Signs of the times 17
Cultural studies as diagnostic critique 27
2 Commodity spectacle: McDonald's as global culture 34
McDonald's and McDonaldization 34
Theorizing McDonald's: a multiperspectivist approach 38
McDonald's between the global and the local 39
McDonald's between the modern and the postmodern 42
Criticizing/resisting the McDonald's spectacle 45
The case against McDonald's 47
Evaluating McDonaldization 55
The personal and the political 57
3 The sports spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike 63
The sports spectacle 65
The spectacle of Michael Jordan 70
Michael Jordan and the sports/race spectacle 73
Michael Jordan, Nike, and the commodity spectacle 78
Third coming, sex scandals, and the contradictions of the spectacle 83
Contradictions of Michael Jordan 86
Reading Jordan critically 87
4 Megaspectacle: the O. J. Simpson murder trial 93
Murder and media spectacle in Brentwood 94
Spectacle culture and the social construction of reality 102
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The verdict and the aftermath 104
The Simpson spectacle, identity politics, and postmodernization 108
Identity and identity politics 110
The Simpson effect: contradictions of a megaspectacle 116
5 TV spectacle: aliens, conspiracies, and biotechnology in The X Files 126
Conspiracy, paranoia, and postmodern aesthetics in The X Files 725
Series television as social critique: "Trust no one" 136
The postmodern sublime, or "Is the truth out there"? 140
Postmodern deconstruction: "I want to believe" but. 145
Nothing important happened today . except that everything changed 150
Representing the unrepresentable 156
6 Presidential Politics, the Movie 160
JFK, the Movie 161
LBJ and Nixon: bad movies 162
Ford and Carter: indifferent presidencies and poor spectacle 164
Ronald Reagan, the acting president 166
Bush I, mixed spectacle, failed presidency 168
The Clinton spectacle 170
Bush II, Grand Theft 2000, and Terror War 173
Conclusion: democratic politics and spectacle culture in the
new millennium 176
References 179
Index 186 |
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