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Global media apocalypse : pleasure, violence and the cultural imaginings of doom / by Jeff Lewis, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, RMIT University, Australia.

By: Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.Description: xi, 228 p.; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781137005441 :
  • 1137005440 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P96.S63 L49 2012
Contents:
New media-old empires: celebrity, sex and revolutions of knowing -- Under the volcano: the cultural ecology of nature -- Hyper-pleasure: consumer rituals and transactions of desire -- Menace: westernism, media and the cultural ecology of violence -- After the apocalypse: refugees, human rights and the global media future.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection P 96 .S63 L49 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 5142801

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.

New media-old empires: celebrity, sex and revolutions of knowing -- Under the volcano: the cultural ecology of nature -- Hyper-pleasure: consumer rituals and transactions of desire -- Menace: westernism, media and the cultural ecology of violence -- After the apocalypse: refugees, human rights and the global media future.

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