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OverviewFrom Katy Perry training alongside US Marines in a music video, to the global box-office mastery of the US military-supported Transformers franchise, to the explosion of war games such as Call of Duty, it’s clear that the US security state is a dominant force in media culture. But is the ubiquity of cultural products that glorify the security state a new phenomenon? Or have Uncle Sam and Hollywood been friends for a long time? Hearts and Mines examines the rise and reach of the US Empire’s culture industry – a nexus between the US’s security state and media firms and the source of cultural products that promote American strategic interests around the world. Building on and extending Herbert I. Schiller’s classic study of US Empire and communications, Tanner Mirrlees interrogates the symbiotic geopolitical and economic relationships between the US state and media firms that drive the production of imperial culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tanner MirrleesPublisher: University of British Columbia Press Imprint: University of British Columbia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780774830157ISBN 10: 0774830158 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 01 June 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Replaced By: 9780774830140 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsTanner Mirrlees' most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is `the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?' (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with `symbiosis'... While Mirrlees' book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian. -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Tanner Mirrlees' most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is 'the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?' (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with 'symbiosis'... While Mirrlees' book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian. -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Tanner Mirrlees’ most exquisite book on the US culture industry starts with a rhetorical question: Is ‘the relationship between the US government and the culture industry one of conflict or symbiosis?’ (p. xiii). Mirrlees answers this with ‘symbiosis’… While Mirrlees’ book is most insightful and illuminating it is also devastatingly pessimistic, perhaps even dystopian.” -- Thomas Klikauer, Western Sydney University, Australia * European * Author InformationTanner Mirrlees is an assistant professor in the Communication and Digital Media Studies Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). He is the author of Global Entertainment Media: Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization and co-editor of The Television Reader. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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