Cultural politics in contemporary America

Met lit.opg. A radical attempt to lay out the complex ways in which the American media and American culture are powerfully interlocked. `Cultural Politics' incorporates the struggles of race, gender and class; the economy of the commercial media system; the myths of hegemony and imperialism; the crises of privacy and the intellectual; and such diverse issues as postmodernism, the American automobile, advertising as communication, and television.