Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 14:00-16:00
Stephen Harper (University of Portsmouth)
University of Westminster, Harrow Campus, room A6.08
Did Somebody Say ‘Neoliberalism’?: Media Studies Beyond the Left
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Beginning with a wide-ranging critique of left-liberal media (and
left-liberal media critics’) perspectives on a range of social and
political topics – including ‘humanitarian intervention’, mental
distress, immigration and ‘the environment’ – this talk argues for the
necessity of Marxism for media criticism. The second part of the talk
offers a more focused interrogation of certain discursive themes in
contemporary Media and Cultural Studies, with a particular focus on the
now hegemonic, yet problematic category of ‘neoliberalism’. Overall,
this ‘big picture’ talk aims to contribute to a reassessment of the
explanatory power and theoretical adequacy of some of the prevailing
postulates of left-liberal Media Studies.
Stephen Harper is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of
Portsmouth. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book
chapters on British television drama and documentary, media and war, and
the mediation of mental illness, as well as the single-authored books
Madness, Power and the Media (Palgrave, 2009) and Beyond the Left: The
Communist Critique of the Media (Zero, 2012).
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