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Media and Cultural Theory

Stephen Hill? Bevis Fenner

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Media and Cultural Theory

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Media and Cultural Theory

? 2010 Stephen Hill, Bevis Fenner & Ventus Publishing ApS

ISBN 978-87-7681-540-0

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Contents

Media and Cultural Theory

Contents

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Theories of the Enlightenment

Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment

Edmund Burke and the Sublime

Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism and the Panopticon

Mikhail Bakhtin and the Carnivalesque

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Marxism and Global Media

Karl Marx and Frederic Engels - The Communist Manifesto

The New Bourgeoisie

Cultural Imperialism and the Media Revolution

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Semiotics and Formalism

Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics

Ferdinand de Saussure and the Cours de Linguistique

Valentin Volosinov ¨C Marxism and The Philosophy of Language

Vladimir Propp ¨C Morphology of the Folk Tale

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The Frankfurt School and Neo Marxism

The Frankfurt School

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4.3

4.4

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer ¨C The Culture Industry

Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man

Antonio Gramsci ¨C Hegemony, Intellectual and the State

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Structuralism

Levi Strauss ¨C Cultural Semiotics

Jacques Lacan ¨C The Mirror Stage

Stuart Hall ¨C Encoding and Decoding

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Poststructuralism

Jacques Derrida ¨C Deconstruction and Diff¨¦rance

Roland Barthes ¨C Death of the Author

Michel Foucault ¨C The Order of Things

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Postmodernity and Consumer Culture

Postmodernism ¨C after modernism

Jean Baudrillard ¨C The Consumer Society and Hyper-reality

Pierre Bourdieu ¨C Education, Taste and Cultural Capital

Frederic Jameson ¨C Postmodern parody and postmodern pastiche

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Consumer Agency and Cultural Studies

Defining Consumerism

Dick Hebdige ¨C Subculture and the Meaning of Style

Stuart Ewen ¨C All Consuming Images

Chris Anderson ¨C The Long Tail

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