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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 25,714 ratings — published 1988
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as media-criticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,828 ratings — published 2019
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 41,841 ratings — published 1985
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 8,880 ratings — published 1995
Propaganda (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 9,864 ratings — published 1928
Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 554 ratings — published 2021
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 1,014 ratings — published 1986
I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 6,767 ratings — published 2019
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,938 ratings — published 1944
The Queer Art of Failure (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 3,097 ratings — published 2011
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 19,522 ratings — published 1974
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 33,931 ratings — published 2010
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 80,077 ratings — published 2019
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 4,307 ratings — published 1964
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 2,307 ratings — published 2001
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 18,008 ratings — published 1967
How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,263 ratings — published 1971
How to Watch a Movie (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.02 — 865 ratings — published 2015
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 81,370 ratings — published 1980
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 1,979 ratings — published 2008
Propaganda and the Public Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,287 ratings — published 1998
The Reading Zone: How to Help Kids Become Skilled, Passionate, Habitual, Critical Readers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,835 ratings — published 2007
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.49 — 2,968 ratings — published 2021
Penance (ebook)
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avg rating 3.86 — 55,795 ratings — published 2023
What We Talk About When We Talk About Books: The History and Future of Reading (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 1,308 ratings — published 2019
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 14,103 ratings — published 2020
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 8,276 ratings — published 1989
The Information State: Politics in the Age of Total Control (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.38 — 162 ratings — published 2026
Greek Music Drama (English and German Edition)
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avg rating 4.03 — 35 ratings — published 2013
Borges on Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,136 ratings — published 1973
Anachronic Renaissance (Mit Press)
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avg rating 4.17 — 42 ratings — published 2010
Selected Writings: Sir Thomas Browne (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 26 ratings — published 1968
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 22,548 ratings — published 1871
Autisme is niet blauw. Smurfen wel. (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 68 ratings — published
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 6,694 ratings — published 2019
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 5,273 ratings — published 2025
Media Effects Research: A Basic Overview (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)
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avg rating 3.64 — 42 ratings — published 2001
Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 59 ratings — published 2001
Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror (Polemics)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2003
The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)
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avg rating 4.10 — 357 ratings — published 1996
Film, Folklore and Urban Legends (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 32 ratings — published 2007
Areopagitica and Other Writings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 61 ratings — published 2014
Den zoologiska trädgården (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published
War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 15 ratings — published 2004
Film Theory and Criticism: Introductory Readings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 691 ratings — published 1974
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 401 ratings — published 1983
What the Daemon Said: Essays on Horror Fiction, Film, and Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 38 ratings — published
Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.01 — 92 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Watching Films (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 288 ratings — published
Strangers, Gods and Monsters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 208 ratings — published 2002
“In the "Republic," Plato vigorously attacked the oral, poetized form as a vehicle for communicating knowledge. He pleaded for a more precise method of communication and classification ("The Ideas"), one which would favor the investigation of facts, principles of reality, human nature, and conduct. What the Greeks meant by "poetry" was radically different from what we mean by poetry. Their "poetic" expression was a product of a collective psyche and mind. The mimetic form, a technique that exploited rhythm, meter and music, achieved the desired psychological response in the listener. Listeners could memorize with greater ease what was sung than what was said. Plato attacked this method because it discouraged disputation and argument. It was in his opinion the chief obstacle to abstract, speculative reasoning - he called it "a poison, and an enemy of the people.”
― The Medium is the Massage
― The Medium is the Massage
“Producers increasingly insert overblown, hyper-emotional scenes even when the underlying conflict could be portrayed with calm or rational dialogue. The intent is not to model constructive problem-solving but to spike ratings through sudden bursts of emotional arousal. This strategy centers on eliciting raw, immediate reactions from the viewer with shows such as characters screaming, weeping dramatic waterfalls, or staging sudden betrayals.”
― Bansang Pinipilas
― Bansang Pinipilas
