Turning the Century: Essays in Media and Cultural Studies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813368207)

The essays in Turning the Century make a significant contribution to our understanding of America's love affairs with novelty and the mass media. The essays also show that neither the current communications revolution nor the response to it is unprecedented. Through this book, Carol Stabile provides a historical context within which scholars and students of American culture can interpret and understand end-of-the-millennium-fever --particularly, the claims of politicians, pundits, and even cultural studies scholars who maintain that recent information technology innovations make the present moment unique. Contemporary studies of mass media and popular culture reflect a similar emphasis on what is new, distinct, and therefore specific to contemporary culture. Claims of millennial transformation, however, are only possible insofar as the history of mass media can be forgotten or ignored. In Turning the Century, Carol Stabile analyzes those hidden, and now all but forgotten, conditions and relations of production that continue to shape and inform contemporary culture.

Author: Carol Stabile
ISBN-10: 0813368200
ISBN-13: 9780813368207
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/21/2000
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.01w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 153
Choice 03/01/2001 pg. 1262