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Spektakl i medijska kultura
Spectacle And Media Culture

Author(s): Ratko Božović
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Zavod za proučavanje kulturnog razvitka
Keywords: Media culture; spectacle; photography; beauty; miss of the world; advertisement; Big Brother; internet; facebook

Summary/Abstract: With the aim to analyze the reality-media culture-spectacle relationship the author focuses on the visual theories of Guy Debord, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudriard. In media and spectacle, virtual reality is recognized as a crucial assumption of the contemporary communication, its advantages and disadvantages. In the attempt to enter the visual world, the author re-evaluated certain substantial culturological concepts of the media sphere, and briefly scrutinized notions relevant for the essential understanding of the visual in the visual culture.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 126/1
  • Page Range: 13-52
  • Page Count: 40
  • Language: Serbian