Douglas Kellner

Douglas Kellner has provided a serious, scholarly work on contemporary media culture---TV, film, music in Media Culture: Cultural studies, identity and politics between the modern and the postmodern, first published in 1995. Blending theory and popular images of contemporary culture, the book focuses on the United States. Kellner provides an overview of the book and its purpose in the Introduction, as well as some key notions.

A major theme is the role of culture in shaping individuals by dominating everyday life. Kellner argues that media culture is the major form of culture that socializes people. Individuals in contemporary U.S. society spend "tremendous amounts of time" participating in forms of media culture such as experiencing music, listening to the radio, watching TV, going to the movies, shopping, and reading magazines and newspapers (2). According to Kellner, media culture demonstrates "who has power and who is powerless" (2). The book therefore

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