TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor, Paul A.
AU  -  Harris, Jan Ll.
TI  - Critical theories of mass media : : then and now
SN  - 9780070706774
U1  - 306.071 TAY 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Critical theory	
KW  - Mass media and culture
N1  - Includes bibliography (p. 223 - 233) and index; 
Pt. 1. Then
1. Walter Benjamin's 'Work of art' essay
2. Siegfried Kracauer's mass ornament
3. Theodor Adorno and the culture industry
4. Marshall McLuhan's understanding of the media
5. Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle
Pt. 2. Now
6. culture of celebrity
7. Banality TV: the democratization of celebrity
8. politics of banality: the ob-scene as the mis-en-scene

ER  -