The Spectacle of Accumulation
Essays in Culture, Media, and Politics
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 11. July 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIV, 300 pages
978-0-8204-7904-0 (ISBN)
Description
Sut Jhally's influential work as an activist, writer, film producer, and educator has had a far-reaching impact on the course and concerns of media criticism. This volume offers an essential collection of his writings. Jhally's work exhibits an engaged and ongoing concern with social justice, cultural politics, and public pedagogy. The Spectacle of Accumulation captures the full range of Jhally's thought and covers a variety of issues including the role of advertising in contemporary life, the cultural politics of sport, race, and gender coding in the coverage of current events, and the power of media education to name just a few of the themes covered in this crucial, new work. In addition to his key writings, this book includes a foreword by Henry Giroux as well as three interviews offering a fresh perspective on Jhally's work.
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Person
The Author: Sut Jhally is the founder and executive director of The Media Education Foundation, and he is the author of numerous scholarly and popular essays, and several books including The Codes of Advertising (1987). A leading expert on advertising and media studies, he is a renowned public speaker, teacher, and film producer. Jhally received the Distinguished Teacher Award at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where the student newspaper has also voted him «Best Professor».