Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shaping of American Consciousness - Couverture souple

Ewen, Stuart; Ewen, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0816618909 ISBN 13 : 9780816618903

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 1992

Synopsis

Stuart Ewen and Elizabeth Ewen offer a telling examination of the rise of mass-produced imagery in the United States, tracing the pivotal role that such images played in the genesis and development of the American imagination. Beginning with the rise of the machine and the emergence of consumerism as a common way of life, the authors lay a strong foundation for an understanding of the twentieth-century American media culture.

Spanning a wide range of fascinating subjects-movies, fashion, tabloid journalism-Ewen and Ewen offer forceful insights into the mechanisms that link alluring images and popular imagination to the entrenched structures of power. Channels of Desire seeks to broaden our understanding of the social history behind the apparent immortality of a consumer society-its universe of commodities, its priorities and social forms, and the modern consumer ethic that stresses images over substance, desire over satisfaction, and the individual over society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stuart Ewen is professor of media studies at Hunter College and professor of sociology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Elizabeth Ewen is professor of American studies at SUNY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0816618909
• ISBN 13: 9780816618903
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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