| Description |
pages cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Method acting -- Learning to love the blob -- The cult of the child -- Twilight of the heroes in a teenage world -- Identity politics -- Busy, busy -- The fate of nature -- Conclusion: Jedermensch ein Ubermensch -- Coda: Terror |
| Summary |
"From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from hip-hop nation to climbing Mt. Everest, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on a tour of every department of our media-saturated society. And at every turn we see ourselves as we are, immersed in options, surrounded by representations, driven to unprecedented levels of self-consciousness - and obliged by these circumstances to transform our very lives into performances."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
First published in 2005. Reprinted in paperback 2006 |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Influence.
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| LC no. |
2004027564 |
| ISBN |
1582343578 hardcover |
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