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Media spectacle /

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and lega...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kellner, Douglas, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Media culture and the triumph of the spectacle; Commodity spectacle : McDonald's as global culture; The sports spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike; Megaspectacle: the O.J. Simpson murder trial; TV spectacle: aliens, conspiracies, and biotechnology in The X-Files; Presidential Politics, the Movie; References; Index.