Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner, Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks

Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner, Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks

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Bringing together a range of core texts into one volume, this acclaimed anthology offers the definitive resource in culture, media, and communication.A fully revised new edition of the bestselling anthology in this dynamic and multidisciplinary fieldNew contributions include essays from Althusser through to Henry Jenkins, and a completely new section on Globalization and Social MovementsRetains important emphasis on the giant thinkers and “makers” of the field: Gramsci on hegemony; Althusser on ideology; Horkheimer and Adorno on the culture industry; Raymond Williams on Marxist cultural theory; Habermas on the public sphere; McLuhan on media; Chomsky on propaganda; hooks and Mulvey on the subjects of visual pleasure and oppositional gazesFeatures a substantial critical introduction, short section introductions and full bibliographic citations.

Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volumes I & II

Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volumes I & II

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Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
The two volumes of Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life provided here are perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the “trivial” details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change.