Moral claims in the age of spectacles : shaping the social imaginary

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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. . Read more... Abstract: This volume considers the rise of a new mode of creating, spreading, and encountering moral claims and ideas as they are expressed within spectacles. 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. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Emergence of Spectacles (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 1-27 Spectacular Theory (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 29-70 Building Spectacles Through Bricolage (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 71-111 Spectacles of Power and the Power of Spectacles (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 113-144 Spectacular Locations (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 145-184 Spectacular Representations (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 185-225 Spectacular Animals (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 227-264 Conclusion (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 265-283 Coda: The Election of Donald J. Trump as Spectacle (Brian M. Lowe)....Pages 285-302 Back Matter ....Pages 303-323