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Empire of illusion : the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle / Chris Hedges.

By: Hedges, Chris.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : Nation Books, c2009Description: 232 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781568584379 (trade); 1568584377.Subject(s): Mass media -- United States | Popular culture -- United States | Mass media -- United States | Popular culture -- United StatesDDC classification: 302.23
Contents:
The illusion of literacy -- The illusion of love -- The illusion of wisdom -- The illusion of happiness -- The illusion of America.
Summary: Analyzes twenty-first-century culture and society, describing two factions--one that functions within a literate, print-based world, and another that embraces fantasy, magic, and illusion from truths--and discusses professional wrestling, pornography, the mass media, corporations, the American government, and more.
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Analyzes twenty-first-century culture and society, describing two factions--one that functions within a literate, print-based world, and another that embraces fantasy, magic, and illusion from truths--and discusses professional wrestling, pornography, the mass media, corporations, the American government, and more.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The illusion of literacy -- The illusion of love -- The illusion of wisdom -- The illusion of happiness -- The illusion of America.

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