Nessun uomo è un'isola. Eppure, tra le sontuose torri in vetro e acciaio delle élite e le umili abitazioni dell'uomo della strada passano mari che sembrano oceani. La storia della civiltà occidentale dal dopoguerra a oggi dimostra la complessità delle dinamiche che riguardano l'individuo, le istituzioni e la collettività. Per coglierle appieno e non smarrirsi in questo flusso caotico di scambi che è l'età contemporanea, sostiene Charles Wright Mills, c'è bisogno di qualcosa in più di astra...

Charles Wright Mills war einer der schillerndsten amerikanischen Intellektuellen, ein "radikaler Nomade" und "postmoderner Cowboy". Zusammen mit Herbert Marcuse und Frantz Fanon zählt Mills zu den wichtigsten Wegbereitern der Neuen Linken - und wurde selbst nach seinem vorzeitigen Tod 1962 von der CIA als "intellektuelle Bedrohung" eingestuft. Generationen von Leserinnen und Lesern wurden durch Die Machtelite zu kritischem Denken animiert. In seinem bahnbrechenden Buch beschreibt Mills ein...

CHARLES WRIGHT MILLS var amerikansk sociolog og venstreintellektuel samfundskritiker. Mills var venstreradikal, magtkritiker, og ikke-konform i sin personlige og professionelle fremtræden. Han blev en slags talsmand for ’det andet Amerika’, sympatisør med frigørelsesbevægelser i Latinamerika og den tredje verden og kendt som en hovedskikkelse i forhold til opkomsten af The New Left.Amerikansk kultur og politik fylder meget i vores bevidsthed og i det danske mediebillede. Vi ved meg...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt school, and mass society theory. Where possible, articles are reproduced in their entirety to pres...

As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals of leading research universities, explores these issues as systems of stratification that work to reinforce one another. Understanding Inequality provides students and academics with the ba...

Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction set in a fictional universe, often inspired by real world myth and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga and video games.Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror by the absence of scientific or macabre themes respectively, though these gen...