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Contents

Chapter outlines ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1

Part 1 Then
1 Walter Benjamin’s ‘Work of art’ essay 17
2 Siegfried Kracauer’s mass ornament 39
3 Theodor Adorno and the culture industry 62
4 Marshall McLuhan’s understanding of the media 85
5 Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle 107

Part 2 Now

Introduction to Part 2 131
6 The culture of celebrity 133
7 Banality TV : the democratization of celebrity 155
8 The politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-scène 177
Conclusion 198
Notes 215
Bibliography 223
Index 235

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