Authors: Thomas de Zengotita
ISBN-13: 9781596910324, ISBN-10: 1596910321
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: Reprint
Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University. He teaches at the Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University.
In this utterly original look at our modern "culture of performance," de Zengotita shows how media are creating self-reflective environments, custom made for each of us. From Princess Diana's funeral to the prospect of mass terror, from oral sex in the Oval Office to cowboy politics in distant lands, from high school cliques to marital therapy, from blogs to reality TV to the Weather Channel, Mediated takes us on an original and astonishing tour of every department of our media-saturated society. The implications are personal and far-reaching at the same time.
"A fine roar of a lecture about how the American mind is shaped by (too much) media...."
Preface | ix | |
Introduction: Method Acting | 1 | |
Chapter 1 | Learning to Love the Blob | 13 |
Chapter 2 | The Cult of the Child | 33 |
Chapter 3 | Twilight of the Heroes | 81 |
Chapter 4 | Identity Politics | 129 |
Chapter 5 | Busy, Busy | 175 |
Chapter 6 | The Fate of Nature | 209 |
Chapter 7 | Jedermensch ein Ubermensch | 249 |
Coda: Terror | 279 |