Simulacrum America: The USA and the Popular Media

A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint.

This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an empire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131876
• ISBN13: 9781571131874
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.4"