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the negative aspects of mass culture.
Jan Ll. Harris is an independent scholar.
accounts of the media’s cultural impact.”
CRITICAL THEORIES OF MASS MEDIA
the Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London
Ghraib controversy and the rise of reality television.
culture by comparing past and present critiques. They:

studies, communications and media studies, and sociology.
voiced, the media chooses how and when to discuss its own
ISBN-10: 033521811-3
apply these insights to recent provocative writers such as Jean
This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and
of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television
Zi˘ek, and discuss the links between such
ISBN-13: 978-033521811-0
“This is a welcome critical corrective to complacent mainstream
Reassess past critical thought in the changed circumstances of
violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a largely
media theorists are frequently more optimistic than realistic about
Marshall McLuhan and Guy Debord. Paul Taylor and Jan Harris then
Critical Theories of Mass Media is a key text for students of cultural
Zi˘ek, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for
Evaluate the significance of new critical thinkers for today's mass
With the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening
Paul A. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Communications Theory, University
neutral or benign part of contemporary life. Even when criticisms are
Outline the key criticisms of mass culture from past critical thinkers
culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass
from the past - Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno,
The book begins by introducing the critical insights from major theorists
between the mass media and the disempowering nature of commodity
otherwise apparently unrelated contemporary events as the Iraqi Abu
inadequacies. More radical external critiques are often excluded and
contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship
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