Marcuse, Herbert, 7, 16

Marriott, David, 154, 381n4

Marx, Karl, 5, 7–8, 274, 313, 317, 329

Mason, James, 235

mass media, 5, 52–53, 163, 178, 221, 339, 343

Masson, Jeffrey, 145, 380n20

Massumi, Brian, 63, 374n17, 380n6

materialism, 50, 189, 264–265

Matrix, The (Andy and Larry Wachowski, 1999), 340

Matthews, Shannon, 32–33, 38, 371n90, 372n91

McCann, Madeleine, 33–34, 367n3, 372n100

McLachlan, Bob, 226, 388n1

McLuhan, Marshal, 11, 305, 368n22

McMartin, Virginia, 17–18, 31

media technologies, 11

media/culture, 1, 5–12, 14–15, 24, 30, 46, 50–51, 53–54, 57–60, 62–65, 69, 78, 82, 85–86, 100, 154–155, 176, 356, 360–362, 364

Megan’s Law, 19

Melville, Herman, 355

Mendes, Sam, 134, 136, 379n2

Merrey, Caroline, 346, 400n24

messianic figures, 307, 309, 311, 314, 324–325, 362

Metz, Christian, 43, 103, 180, 265, 280, 285, 373n111, 376n6, 394n25

mirror phase, 259, 280

modernism, 8, 164

Modleski, Tania, 154, 368n10, 381n5

monstrous, 5, 14, 76, 130–131, 174, 182, 184, 192, 240, 258, 260, 264, 266, 322, 358, 364

moral panic, 10

Morin, Edwin, 70

Mork and Mindy (1978–1982), 216

Morrison, Toni, 92, 383n28, 383n34, 384n54

Morrissey, 225

Mrs. Doubtfire (Chris Columbus, 1993), 216

Muhammad, John Allen, 352

Mulvey, Laura, 136, 265, 379n3

Muslim, 22, 82, 331, 352

Mussolini, Benito, 344

Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, 2003), 213

Nabokov, Vladimir, 101–103, 107–108, 113, 355, 376nn2–3, 378n36

narcissism, 54, 56–60, 86, 259, 283, 361–362

Narcissus, 11

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), 29

Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1994), 125, 191–198, 248, 340, 351–352, 386n5

Neil, Paul, 45

neo-capitalism, 5

neurosis, 10, 231, 277

New Testament, 41, 189, 250, 310, 315, 324, 332, 398n14

Newman, Kim, 268

News of the World, The, 19, 89–90

Newsweek, 17, 98

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 78, 83, 122, 196–197, 271, 274, 279–280, 313, 322, 324, 327–336, 338, 343, 346, 386n14, 393n21, 398nn1–3, 398nn6–11, 398n13, 398n15, 399nn18–20, 400n23