Power Plays Power Works

by John Fiske, Black Hawk Hancock, John Fiske

Book Overview

Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske's classic text Power Plays Power Works remains both timely and insightful as a theoretically driven examination of the terrain where the politics of culture and the culture of politics collide.

Drawing on a diverse set of cultural sites - from alternative talk radio forums, museums, celebrity fandom, to social problems such as homelessness - Fiske traverses the topography...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138888168
• ISBN13: 9781138888166
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

This is an outstanding reference for the American dilemma.

This publication gives the reader a dynamic understanding of the nature of mankind as it relates to power. We are able to see ourselves as we struggle to control everything in our environment under the disquise of seeking to understand things. It is extremely abstract and should be read with others to discuss general content and have group feedback. It offers some reasonable solutions to the problems in American culture today.