Global Media Apocalypse

Pleasure, Violence and the Cultural Imaginings of Doom

Jeff Lewis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '12

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The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.

'A visionary analysis of contemporary global conditions. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in media, culture and the future of the planet.'

- Dr Kristy Best, Murdoch University, Australia

ISBN: 9781349434749

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228 pages

1st ed. 2012