Media and Cultural Theory

Stephen Hill & Bevis Fenner Media and Cultural Theory Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 2 Media and Cultural Theory © 2010 Stephen Hill, Bevis Fenner & Ventus Publishing ApS ISBN 978-87-7681-540-0 Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 3 Media and Cultural Theory Contents Contents Forward 7 1. Theories of the Enlightenment 8 1.1 Immanuel Kant and the Enlightenment 8 1.2 Edmund Burke and the Sublime 9 1.3 Jeremy Bentham, Utilitarianism and the Panopticon 12 1.4 Mikhail Bakhtin and the Carnivalesque 16 2. Marxism and Global Media 20 2.1 Karl Marx and Frederic Engels - The Communist Manifesto 21 2.2 The New Bourgeoisie 25 2.3 Cultural Imperialism and the Media Revolution 27 3. Semiotics and Formalism 30 3.1 Charles Sanders Peirce and Semiotics 31 3.2 Ferdinand de Saussure and the Cours de Linguistique 31 3.3 Valentin Volosinov – Marxism and The Philosophy of Language 34 3.4 Vladimir Propp – Morphology of the Folk Tale 37 4. The Frankfurt School and Neo Marxism 41 4.1 The Frankfurt School 41 The next step for top-performing graduates Masters in Management Designed for high-achieving graduates across all disciplines, London Business School’s Masters in Management provides specific and tangible foundations for a successful career in business. This 12-month, full-time programme is a business qualification with impact. In 2010, our MiM employment rate was 95% within 3 months of graduation*; the majority of graduates choosing to work in consulting or financial services. As well as a renowned qualification from a world-class business school, you also gain access to the School’s network of more than 34,000 global alumni – a community that offers support and opportunities throughout your career. For more information visit www.london.edu/mm, email mim@london.edu or give us a call on +44 (0)20 7000 7573. * Figures taken from London Business School’s Masters in Management 2010 employment report Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 4 Media and Cultural Theory Contents 4.2 Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer – The Culture Industry 43 4.3 Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man 45 4.4 Antonio Gramsci – Hegemony, Intellectual and the State 47 5. Structuralism 54 5.1 Levi Strauss – Cultural Semiotics 54 5.2 Jacques Lacan – The Mirror Stage 57 5.3 Stuart Hall – Encoding and Decoding 59 6. Poststructuralism 63 6.1 Jacques Derrida – Deconstruction and Différance 64 6.2 Roland Barthes – Death of the Author 67 6.3 Michel Foucault – The Order of Things 70 7. Postmodernity and Consumer Culture 74 7.1 Postmodernism – after modernism 74 7.2 Jean Baudrillard – The Consumer Society and Hyper-reality 75 7.3 Pierre Bourdieu – Education, Taste and Cultural Capital 78 7.4 Frederic Jameson – Postmodern parody and postmodern pastiche 80 8. ConsumerAgency and Cultural Studies 85 8.1 Defining Consumerism 85 8.2 Dick Hebdige – Subculture and the Meaning of Style 88 8.3 Stuart Ewen – All Consuming Images 92 8.4 Chris Anderson – The Long Tail 96 Teach with the Best. Learn with the Best. Agilent offers a wide variety of affordable, industry-leading electronic test equipment as well as knowledge-rich, on-line resources —for professors and students. We have 100’s of comprehensive web-based teaching tools, lab experiments, application notes, brochures, DVDs/ CDs, posters, and more. © Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2012 See what Agilent can do for you. www.agilent.com/find/EDUstudents www.agilent.com/find/EDUeducators u.s. 1-800-829-4444 canada: 1-877-894-4414 Download free ebooks at bookboon.com 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn