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  • Adventures in Marxist Theory

    Toward a Reconstruction of Marxism in the Contemporary Era

    by 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, technology, and everyday ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Trajectories of Neo-Marxism

    Development, Debates, and Currents

    by Douglas Kellner ...
    Reconstructing how Marxism responded to the transformations in society, politics, the economy and culture in the 20th century, Trajectories of Neo-Marxism begins with studies of the key figures in the 1920s – Bloch, Lukacs, Korsch and Gramsci – who began developing revisions of Marxism that responded to World War I, the revolutionary upheavals that emerged or followed the war in Russia and various ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Media Spectacle in the 21st Century: From the Stolen Election of 2000 to the Trump MAGA Horror Show

    by Douglas Kellner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an original analysis of the primacy of media spectacle in the politics, social history, and major events of the 21st century which highlights the importance of critical analysis and interpretation of broadcasting, the Internet, and social meaning in understanding the key historical events and the multiple factors that produce them during the contemporary era. The text explores how ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy

    Terrorism, War, and Election Battles

    by 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 media, have ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Media Culture

    Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics in the Contemporary Moment

    by 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 providing methods of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Guys and Guns Amok

    Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre

    by 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 male socialization and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Critical Theory and Pedagogy

    Towards the Reconstruction of Education

    by Douglas Kellner ...
    Series Book 534 - Counterpoints
    The decolonization of education necessarily involves a critique of dominant ideologies, pedagogies, and the current organization of education, to be replaced by what, in 1970, Paulo Freire called "the pedagogy of the oppressed." Critical Theory and Pedagogy presents a theory for decolonizing, democratizing, and reconstructing education in order to meet the challenges of a global and technological ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Persian Gulf TV War

    by 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. In so doing, the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Television And The Crisis Of Democracy

    by 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 Carleton University In ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Re-Visioning Education

    Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy

    by Douglas Kellner ...
    Series Book 555 - Counterpoints
    Douglas Kellner’s Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and digital literacies aimed at a critical theory of education and radical pedagogy for the 21st Century. Kellner also engages the battle ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism

    by Douglas Kellner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    As we enter a new millennium, it is clear that we are in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history that is changing everything from the ways that we work, communicate, participate in politics, and spend our leisure time. The technological revolution centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies, is often interpreted as the beginnings ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Media Spectacle

    by 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 example of what the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD