Paul Heyer: Harold Innis (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical media studies, history of communications, media, media theory, political economy
His name may not be as well known as that of his colleague and spiritual descendent, Marshall McLuhan, but Harold Innis’s (1894-1952) influence on contemporary critical media and communication studies has been no less profound. This concise look at Innis’s life and contributions to the communication field charts his beginnings in political economy to his later work in critical media studies and communications history, synthesizing his key publications and clearly showing their ongoing resonance for the field today. The book also includes an appendix by William J. Buxton on the “History of Communications” manuscript and one by J. David Black on the contributions of Mary Quayle Innis.
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Harold Innis, University of Toronto, monopoly of knowledge, Harold Adams Innis, fur trade, Marshall McLuhan, space-bias, Innis’s, Eric Havelock, History of Communications, Donald Grant Creighton, Canadian Pacific Railway, Alfred Kroeber, political economy, quipu, Thorstein Veblen, communication studies, Ronald Deibert, Peter Pond, David Crowley
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
ISBN 0742524841, 9780742524842
Length 133 pages
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Theodor W. Adorno: The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (2001)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, creative industries, critical media studies, critical theory, cultural production, culture industry, Frankfurt school, mass media, popular culture
“The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno’s thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today’s world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno’s work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.”
Editor J. M. Bernstein
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415253802, 9780415253802
210 pages
Key terms: fascist, mass music, virme, culture industry, mass media, Dialectic of Enlightenment, mass culture, ego ideal, Adorno, acmally, critical theory, jazz, reified, psychoanalysis, astrology, Simone Weil, Freud, Erich Fromm, Gillian Rose
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