Political Media Review » Globalization

Hollywood’s Exploited: Public Pedagogy, Corporate Movies, and Cultural Crisis

politicalmediareview — Fri, 27 May 2011 02:00:38 +0000

Hollywood’s Exploited is an interdisciplinary collection designed to analyze the cultural narratives and political economy of Hollywood through Henry Giroux’s work on public pedagogy. In the foreword, renowned cultural studies scholar Lawrence Grossberg describes the book as a “critical pedagogy of Hollywood”

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

politicalmediareview — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:15:04 +0000

Investigative journalist Naomi Klein speaking on “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” is a PM Press DVD produced by Bonobo Films. It consists of a brilliant 65-minute talk Naomi gave on May 19, 2008

The Politics of Protest: Task Force on Violent Aspects of Protest and Confrontation of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence

politicalmediareview — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:02:17 +0000

So the story goes, the original edition of The Politics of Protest was in fact a report commissioned by the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration in 1968. That year, Johnson created the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.

Meditations on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth

politicalmediareview — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:01:55 +0000

Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, a searing indictment of global racism, colonialism and imperialism, is among the foundational writings of postcolonial theory. Originally written in 1961, Wretched stands out among Fanon's writings

Becoming the Media: A Critical History of Clamor Magazine

politicalmediareview — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:22:12 +0000

Becoming the Media provides an in-depth analysis of the intersectional radical and left wing publication Clamor, which emerged with the Independent Media Centre movement

Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy & Planetary Crisis

politicalmediareview — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:58:27 +0000

As globalization penetrates the hearts and souls of many lives and as transnational capitalist interests work beyond the sovereignty of many states to weaken both socioeconomic and environmental regulations, accelerating people's impoverishment along with ecological catastrophe as a result, the world needs revised thinking and action.

Direct Action: An Ethnography

politicalmediareview — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:14:50 +0000

To many anarchists, the idea of an “ethnographic study of the global justice movement” may seem problematic. Whether it be matters of security culture or the question of an outsider coming into a culture and telling the rest of the world about them, people I’ve talked to, without knowing Graeber’s work, often seemed skeptical.