Media Unlimited, Revised Edition: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives - Brossura

Gitlin, Todd

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0805086897 ISBN 13: 9780805086898

Casa editrice: Picador, 2007

Riassunto

A thought-provoking but balanced examination of our media-dominated world reveals the vast array of manufactured images and sounds that have defined our civilization, from video games to elevator music, action movies to reality shows, and punditry to Internet exhibitionists. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia
University and the author of twelve other books, including The Sixties, Inside Prime Time, The Twilight of Common Dreams, and The Bulldozer and the Big Tent. He lives in New York City.

Product Description:

As he did with television in "Inside Prime Time" and with the culture wars in "The Twilight of Common Dreams, " Todd Gitlin once again recasts the world readers think they know. In "Media Unlimited" he makes readers stare, as if for the first time, at the biggest picture of all.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805086897
• ISBN 13: 9780805086898
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272