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Douglas Kellner

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Born: May 30 1943

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Douglas Kellner is a "third generation" critical theorist in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, or Frankfurt School. Kellner was an early theorist of the field of critical media literacy and has been a leading theorist of media culture generally.[citation needed] In his recent work, he has increasingly argued that media culture has become dominated by the forms of spectacle and mega-spectacle. He also has contributed important studies of alter-globalization processes, and has always been concerned with counter-hegemonic movements and alternative cultural expressions in the name of a more radically democratic society.

Kellner has written with a number of authors, including an award-winning trilogy of books on postmodern turns in philosophy, the arts, and in science and technology. More recently, he is known for his work exploring the politically oppositional potentials of new media and attempted to delineate what they term "multiple technoliteracies" as a movement away from the present attempt to standardize a corporatist form of computer literacy. Previously, Kellner served as the literary executor of the famed documentary film maker Emile de Antonio and is presently overseeing the publication of six volumes of the collected papers of the critical theorist Herbert Marcuse. At present, Kellner is the George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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Douglas Kellner

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Books from Douglas Kellner

Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Post-Modern

Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works

War Against War

Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film

Technology, War and Fascism: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume 1

Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity

Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond

Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush-Cheney Era

Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism

American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations

Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre

Ernesto Che Guevara

American Nightmare: Donald Trump, Media Spectacle, and Authoritarian Populism

Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy: Terrorism, War, and Election Battles

The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media & Transforming Education (Brill Guides to Scholarship in Education)

Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader

Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and the Stolen Election

Technology and the Good Life?

On Marcuse: Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse

9/11 in American Culture (Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry)