Media Culture and the Triumph of the Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32855/fcapital.200501.004

Keywords: Social Theory, Capitalism, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Critique, Digital Society, Sociology, Scholarly Journal, Peer reviewed journal, Ben Agger, Tim Luke

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Author Biography

Douglas Kellner

Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations (with Steven Best); Television and the Crisis of Democracy; The Persian Gulf TV War; Media Culure, and The Postmodern Turn (with Steven Best). Recent books include a study of the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Theft of an Election, and The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium (with Steve Best). His latest books are Media Spectacle and another from 2003 September 11, Terror War, and the Dangers of the Bush Legacy. His Web site is at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html and his weblog Blogleft is at http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed253a/blogger.php. Mailing address: Douglas Kellner, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Moore Hall Mailbox 951521, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095; kellner@ucla.edu.

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2019-02-19

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Vol. 1 No. 1 (2005): Fast Capitalism 1.1

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