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    Development, Debates, and Currents

    Reconstructing how Marxism responded to the transformations in society, politics, the economy and culture in the 20th century, Trajectories of Neo-Marxism begins with studies of the key figures in the 1920s – Bloch, Lukacs, Korsch and Gramsci – who began developing revisions of Marxism that responded to World War I, the revolutionary upheavals that emerged or followed the war in Russia and various ... Read more

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  • Adventures in Marxist Theory

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    Adventures in Marxist Theory provides an introduction and overview of Marxian theory to demonstrate its contemporary relevance to social and political theory and a range of disciplines from philosophy to economics in both the humanities and the social sciences. The text argues that current historical developments and the evolution of economics, politics, society, culture, technology, and everyday ... Read more

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  • Media Spectacle in the 21st Century: From the Stolen Election of 2000 to the Trump MAGA Horror Show

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an original analysis of the primacy of media spectacle in the politics, social history, and major events of the 21st century which highlights the importance of critical analysis and interpretation of broadcasting, the Internet, and social meaning in understanding the key historical events and the multiple factors that produce them during the contemporary era. The text explores how ... Read more

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  • Re-Visioning Education

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    Series Book 555 - Counterpoints
    Douglas Kellner’s Re-Visioning Education: Cultural Studies, Critical Media and Digital Literacies, and Democracy provides a comprehensive account of his critical theory of education that combines his work in philosophy of education, cultural studies, and media and digital literacies aimed at a critical theory of education and radical pedagogy for the 21st Century. Kellner also engages the battle ... Read more

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    Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1

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    Herbert Marcuse is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. Born in Berlin, Marcuse studied philosophy with Husserl and Heidegger at the Universities of Freiburg and Berlin. Marcuse's critical social theory ingeniously fuses phenomenology, Freudian thought and Marxist theory; and provides a solid ground for his reputation as the most crucial figure inspiring the social activism and New ... Read more

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  • Bring 'Em On

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    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Read more

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  • Media, Terrorism, and Theory

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    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Over the past few years, coverage of terror attacks has featured prominently in numerous media outlets. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, the essays in Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader analyze the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism, including terrorism as a media event, war and media, nationalism and media, public responsibility, and journalistic ... Read more

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  • Planetary Politics

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    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
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    In this thorough update of one of the classic texts of media and cultural studies, Douglas Kellner argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture that socializes us and provides and plays major roles in the economy, polity, and social and cultural life.The book includes a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and society, while providing methods of ... Read more

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  • The Persian Gulf TV War

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  • Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
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  • Television And The Crisis Of Democracy

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