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Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of
'quality' television programs, many of which featuring complicated
versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women's
movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades
of backlash and debate about the effects of women's equality on
men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women.
Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including
popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League,
Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways
in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating
discourses of the ostensible 'crisis of masculinity' in
contemporary culture. A rich study of masculinity and its
representation in contemporary television, Masculinity in
Contemporary Quality Television will appeal to scholars and
students of cultural and media studies, popular culture, television
studies and cultural sociology with interests in gender,
masculinities, and sexuality.
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of
'quality' television programs, many of which featuring complicated
versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women's
movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades
of backlash and debate about the effects of women's equality on
men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women.
Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including
popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League,
Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways
in which popular cultural texts address widely circulating
discourses of the ostensible 'crisis of masculinity' in
contemporary culture. A rich study of masculinity and its
representation in contemporary television, Masculinity in
Contemporary Quality Television will appeal to scholars and
students of cultural and media studies, popular culture, television
studies and cultural sociology with interests in gender,
masculinities, and sexuality.
The ascendency of Donald J. Trump to the office of president was
not a fluke. Changes in the media environment and changes in the
political landscape converged and provided fertile ground for a
demagogic populist to exploit existing structures for his personal
and political gains. A right-wing ecosystem had developed that
included cable television, talk radio, social media, and
imageboards. The political rise of Trump occurred alongside a
mainstreaming of far-right politics and a skepticism towards
long-established institutions. Trump was able to exploit the shifts
in politics and the media environment for his political gain. He
deployed a post-truth strategy that challenged established media
and political institutions and their claims to be arbiters of truth
and protectors of democracy. This book explores the shifts in the
media environment that made the political career of Donald Trump
possible. The author shows the ways that Trump was able to inhabit
the new media and political landscape and take advantage of
journalistic norms and practices that were susceptible to
exploitation by a demagogue with no allegiance to the truth and no
reverence towards the foundations of liberal democracy.
Understanding the ways in which Trump was able to emerge as a
powerful political force is essential to those invested in
challenging the momentum of the alt-right and forwarding the
project of democracy.
Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century.
Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an
era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7
media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and
existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans
collide with technology and each other-tomorrows that might arrive
in five years or five minutes. Featuring scholars from three
continents and ten nations, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory
is an international collection of critical media theory applied to
one of the most intellectually provocative TV shows of our time and
the all-too-real conditions that inspire it. Drawing from thinkers
such as Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Marshall
McLuhan, and Paul Virilio, the authors reverse-engineer Black
Mirror by probing the ideas, meanings, and conditions embedded in
the episodes. This book is organized around six key topics
reflected and explored in Black Mirror-human identity, surveillance
culture, spectacle and hyperreality, aesthetics, technology and
existence, and dystopian futures.
Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century.
Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an
era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7
media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and
existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans
collide with technology and each other-tomorrows that might arrive
in five years or five minutes. Featuring scholars from three
continents and ten nations, Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory
is an international collection of critical media theory applied to
one of the most intellectually provocative TV shows of our time and
the all-too-real conditions that inspire it. Drawing from thinkers
such as Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord, Marshall
McLuhan, and Paul Virilio, the authors reverse-engineer Black
Mirror by probing the ideas, meanings, and conditions embedded in
the episodes. This book is organized around six key topics
reflected and explored in Black Mirror-human identity, surveillance
culture, spectacle and hyperreality, aesthetics, technology and
existence, and dystopian futures.
The ascendency of Donald J. Trump to the office of president was
not a fluke. Changes in the media environment and changes in the
political landscape converged and provided fertile ground for a
demagogic populist to exploit existing structures for his personal
and political gains. A right-wing ecosystem had developed that
included cable television, talk radio, social media, and
imageboards. The political rise of Trump occurred alongside a
mainstreaming of far-right politics and a skepticism towards
long-established institutions. Trump was able to exploit the shifts
in politics and the media environment for his political gain. He
deployed a post-truth strategy that challenged established media
and political institutions and their claims to be arbiters of truth
and protectors of democracy. This book explores the shifts in the
media environment that made the political career of Donald Trump
possible. The author shows the ways that Trump was able to inhabit
the new media and political landscape and take advantage of
journalistic norms and practices that were susceptible to
exploitation by a demagogue with no allegiance to the truth and no
reverence towards the foundations of liberal democracy.
Understanding the ways in which Trump was able to emerge as a
powerful political force is essential to those invested in
challenging the momentum of the alt-right and forwarding the
project of democracy.
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