Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: Theory/Context/Methods 2. Media Culture, Politics, and Ideology: Hollywood Film in the Age of Media Politics 3. Diagnostic Critique, Deconstruction, and Social Anxiety: Fear and Trembling in the Middle Class and Disaffected Youth 4. For a Multiperspectival Cultural Studies: Black Voices From Spike Lee to Rap Part II: Media Culture/Identities/Politics 5. Reading the Gulf War: Production/Text/Reception 6. Miami Vice, Advertising, and the Construction of Postmodern Identities 8. Mapping the Present From the Future: Baudrillard and Cyberpunk Conclusion

Reviews

"[A] book that masterfully integrates the most important theoretical insights of the field with a brilliant series of textual readings that demonstrate what it means to actually do cultural studies . . . an indispensable book."
-Henry Giroux, Waterbury Chair Professor, Penn State University
"There is really nothing quite like this book on the market. It can be sold as both a book on theory and on method . . . Timely, important and refreshing."
-Gail Dines, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
"An excellent book by any standards . . . Kellner has a particular talent for making difficult ideas easy to grasp. For this reason it is likely to be a popular teaching text, facilitating accessibility whilst simultaneously offering a significant theoretical and analytical development in the field."
-Jim McGuigan, Coventry University