“The #book, an extension of this œuvre, deploys a litany of canonical #mediatheorists and #philosophers - #JeanBaudrillard, #WalterBenjamin, #MarshallMcLuhan, #PierreBourdieu, #ThorsteinVeblen - to argue the #Kardashians are “an intentional amalgamation,” “a composite of historical touch points …’”

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Pre-order for 📅12 Nov '26,📘Fictitious Countries in Media by Melissa Beattie, addressing the problems and potentials of creating fictitious countries in film and media, interrogating the methods and motivations of their construction and – perhaps more importantly – who they purport to represent. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fictitious-countries-in-media-9781666970463 #academic #libraries #HigherEd #HigherEducation #MediaTheorists