Media Spectacles
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Media Spectacles

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Media Spectacles

About this book

Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9781135200565
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Index

Abolitionism, 105-106
Abraham, Karl, 204n38
Abrams, Η. Μ., 132n2
The Accused (film, 1988), 162, 163-165
Acer, David, 234
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 77-78, 89
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting (Goldman), 90n7
Advertising, 65-67, 71-72n19, 72n20, 126-128
The Advocate, 5
AIDS
Buckley on identification of carriers, 229n13
Canadian government policies on, 229-230n21
conservative commentators and heterosexual, 247-248n20
media and Bergalis case, 232-245, 24&-249n31, 250n46
media and Cronenbergs Rabid, 216— 227
media and Magic Johnson, 255-264, 264-265nl1, 265-266n26
AIDS and Its Metaphors (Sontag), 240-241
Allen, Woody, 18
Αll the Presidents Men (Bernstein & Woodward), 47, 54n31
Alvarez, J. C., 29-30
American Historical Review, 3, 4-5
Americanization, 220-221
Anality, theories of sexuality, 181-182, 183-188, 201-202n5
Andrade, Oswald de, 103
And the Band Played On (film), 216
Ansen, David, 36-37
Antonioni, Michelangelo, 14-15
Aristotle, 146
Arsenio Hall Show, 256, 258
Artaud, Antonin, 69
Authority, military and civil, 58-59
Avnet, Jon, 84-85
Bachrach, Bernard, 241-242, 250-251n48
Bakhtin, Mikhail, 113-114n29
The Balcony (Genet), 63
The Ballad of Cregorio Cortez (film, 1983), 95, 96-101, 103, 110
Ballads (corridos), 94-95, 111-112
Ballet, 123
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 26-27
Basic Instinct (film, 1992), 5, 6, 86, 88-89
Baudrillard, Jean, 120, 133n4
Beam, Alex, 148
Beccaria, Cesare de, 144
The Believers (...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. Watching Politics
  9. Watching Borders
  10. Watching Sex
  11. Watching AIDS
  12. Index
  13. Contributors

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Yes, you can access Media Spectacles by Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz, Marjorie Garber,Jann Matlock,Rebecca L. Walkowitz in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.