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THE SPECTACLE OF ACCUMULATION: ESSAYS IN CULTURE, MEDIA, AND POLITICS by sut jhally. peter lang publishing/300 pp./$32.95 (sb)
The compilation of Sut Jhally's essays in The Spectacle of Accumulation offer insight into a wide range of issues that plague the interactions between media, culture, and politics. Focusing on issues concerning how the media influences gender stereotypes, race relations, political culture, advertising, and sports, Jhally offers critical insight that is unattainable from mainstream media culture, primarily because privatized media promotes a selfserving "consciousness industry." Although many of...