Postmodern Media Culture

by Jonathan Bignell

Overview

Postmodern Media Culture analyses the function of media examples in the work of a number of key theorists including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard and McLuhan, and discusses contemporary media production, products and audiences, to test and reorient theoretical models of the postmodern.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788189833169
Publisher:	Aakar Books
Publication date:	12/13/2007
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.87(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Bignell is a Senior Lecturer in Media Arts at Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Editorial Reviews

Is ideally suited to push buttons and spark response from students.

Scope

Convincing and impressive. … Outstanding analyses of Seven and The Name of the Rose offer a profound rewriting of abstract theoretical definitions of postmodernism…solid, clear and precise… the book is a valuable reminder of how postmodern theory functions at its best.

Media International Australia