Binding: Paperback
Description: This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology exposing how they promote neoliberalism's underlying ideas values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good. Covering a wide range of media and genres and adopting a variety of qualitative textual methodologies and theoretical frameworks the chapters examine diverse topics from news coverage of the 2016 U. S. presidential election to the NBC show Superstore (an atypical instance in which a TV show for one brief season challenged the central tenets of neoliberalism) to "kitchen porn." The book also takes an intersectional approach as contributors explore how gender race class and other aspects of social identity are inextricably tied to each other within media representation. At once innovative and distinctive in its illustration of how the media is complicit in perpetuating neoliberal ideology Neoliberalism and the Media offers students and scholars alike an incisive portrait of the intersection between media and ideology today.
Title: Neoliberalism And The Media
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138094437
Pages: 236 Pages
Publication Date: 2/12/2019
Category: Liberalism & Centre Democratic Ideologies