{"product_id":"american-media-and-mass-culture-left-perspectives-paperback","title":"American Media and Mass Culture: Left Perspectives - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDonald Lazere\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent Marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture-from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe best essays in this collection describe how in various media--news, fairy tales, comics, soap operas, Hollywood films, and Masterpiece Theatre--elites manage to perpetuate sexism, racism, imperial privilege, and economic inequity. This is the yeoman work of left intellectuals, judiciously done.--Scott L. Malcomson, \u003ci\u003eVoice Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \"The volume's essays are remarkable for their concreteness and clarity--and blessedly free of the tortured corkscrew prose that renders so much left criticism unreadable, unthinkable, and inaccessible to students and scholars. . . . \u003ci\u003eAmerican Media and Mass Culture\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a much needed, long absent alternative to the 'reflex conservatism' of capitalist political ideology. Without imposing a political persuasion on students, the anthology challenges its readers to think the unthinkable.\"--Arthur J. Kaul, \u003ci\u003eJournalism Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e \"Lazere displays an encyclopedic knowledge of the literature on culture and the media and an impressive talent for evaluating its diverse and conflicting themes.\" --Murray Edelman, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Media and Mass Culture\u003c\/i\u003e has many astute and perceptive things to say, thereby confirming the rich and intellectually sophisticated tradition of predominantly Western European and American philosophical Marxism that inspired many New Left activists in the sixties and early seventies. In this sense, this publication could be seen as a courageous (if somewhat desperado like) assertion of the continuing vigor of a politically committed and passionate theoretical discourse.\" --Ien Ang, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Lazere\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unique Creation of Albert Camus\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.15 x 9.15 x 6.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 1987\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42723853631551,"sku":"9780520044968","price":86.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/06e28369dc0d24d935e63afd3a29177f.webp?v=1765100607","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/american-media-and-mass-culture-left-perspectives-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}