Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles
Shaping the Social Imaginary
Authors: Lowe, Brian M.
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This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles. Brian M. Lowe explains how spectacles emerge when we are saturated with mediated representations—including pictures, texts, and videos—and exposed to television and movies and the myriad stories they tell us. The question of which moral issues gain our attention and which are neglected increasingly relates to how societal concerns are supported—or obscured—by spectacles. This project explores how this new form of moral understanding came to be. Through a series of case studies, including the use of radio and comic books; the crafting of Russian national identity through art; television and film; the evolution of human rights law through film and journalism; and the promotion of animal rights campaigns, this book unveils some of the ways in which our spectacular environment shapes moral understanding, and is in turn shaped by spectacle.
- About the authors
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Brian M. Lowe is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Oneonta, USA. He holds degrees in sociology from Queen’s University, Ontario, CA, and the University of Virginia, USA.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Emergence of Spectacles
Pages 1-27
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Spectacular Theory
Pages 29-70
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Building Spectacles Through Bricolage
Pages 71-111
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Spectacles of Power and the Power of Spectacles
Pages 113-144
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Spectacular Locations
Pages 145-184
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Moral Claims in the Age of Spectacles
- Book Subtitle
- Shaping the Social Imaginary
- Authors
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- Brian M. Lowe
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-50241-4
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-50241-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-50240-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 323
- Topics
