Book Review: Justin Lewis, Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination

What is the role of the media and cultural industries in late capitalism? In Beyond Consumer Capitalism: Media and the Limits to Imagination , author Justin Lewis joins those who argue that these forces a re escalating the crisis of personal well - being, the hollowing out of public life, and the failure to develop imaginative policy responses to impending environmental disaster. [Taken from introduction]