Books by Douglas Kellner

This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the contradictory influence of television, a medium that has dramatized conflicts within society and has on occasion led to valuable social criticism.

Provides a fascinating diagnostic reading of domestic terrorism in the US, including the Columbine shootings and Oklahoma City bombing.

Explosive analysis of the role of the media in Bush's 2004 election victory.

This work is a commentary and analysis of the 2000 US presidential election spectacle. It weaves together the general and the specific, the abstract and the concrete, short-term effects and (possible) long-term consequences for the future of American politics.

This book offers the systematic, critically informed political and institutional study of television yet published in the United States. It evaluates the contradictory influence of television, a medium that has dramatized conflicts within society and has on occasion led to valuable social criticism.

Through analysis of several media spectacles - including the O.J. Simpson, Elvis, the X-Files and the Clinton sex scandals - Kellner draws insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies.