Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-27 - Publisher: Penguin
What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential gui
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-11-23 - Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1, Martin Luther University (Ins
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-24 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
The book explains how America’s consumer capitalism created a generation of mindless citizens, steeped in the ever-present rounds of entertainment and distrac
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
We live in scandalous times. Every day some new controversy demands our attention, our emotional investment, and, ultimately, our judgment. Many of these routin
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Routledge
The apocalypse is a motif that lies behind many religious beliefs and practices. 'War in Heaven/Heaven on Earth' theorizes the apocalyptic as it has arisen in a