Critical Studies in Media Commercialism

by Lance Strate and Robin Andersen

Book Overview

This book brings together an impressive collection of essays that explore the growing complexity, range, and reach of media commercialism in today's world. From the corporate conglomeration of today's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198742770
• ISBN13: 9780198742777
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An important approach to media

This is a good collection of media essays with a marxist and technophobe bent that includes articles by some of the most important scholars working in media criticism today. It points up the difficulties and complexities of the complete domination of media by commerce. In addition, it brings the material into the age of globalization rather than looking at media as single technological units. One area I think that it misses is the cell phone revolution, because that could create a counter model to the centralizing aspects of commercial media.