Cultural Politics in Contemporary America (Paperback, 1)

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Requiem for the American Empire 2. The Imperial Cannibal 3. American Empire and Global Communication 4. Power, Hegemony, and Communication Theory 5. The Political Economy of Culture 6. Advertising and the Development of Consumer Society 7. Circumscribing Postmodern Culture 8. In Living Colour: Race and American Culture 9. Cultural Conundrums and Gender: America’s Present Past 10. Working Class Culture in the Electronic Age 11. Nature in Industrial Society 12. Sexual Politics 13. Action-Adventure as Ideology 14. Vehicles for Myth: The Shifting Image of the Modern Car 15. Advertising as Religion: The Dialectic of Technology and Magic 16. The Importance of Shredding in Earnest: Reading the National Security Culture and Terrorism 17. Television and Democracy 18. MTV: Swinging on the (Postmodern) Star 19. The Decline of American Intellectuals 20. The Myth of the Information Society 21. Limits to the Imagination: Marketing and Children’s Culture 22. The Privatization of Culture 23. Media Beyond Representation 24. Postmodernism: Roots and Politics Notes Contributors