Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music and other artefacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity and both social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African-American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, MTV, Beavis and Butt-Head , the Gulf-War as cultural text, cyberpunk fiction and postmodern theory, Kellner provides a series of lively studies that both illuminate contemporary culture and provide methods of analysis and critique. This superb book is a major contribution to the growing debate on culture and politics. Assured, fair-minded and constantly stimulating, Media Culture , written by one of the leading figures in the field, will be widely read and used by all those interested in the subject of culture.