ISBN:
1403966400
,
1403966419
,
1403978220
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxix, 157 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version High Theory/Low Culture
DDC:
306/.0973
Keywords:
Bakhtin, M. M
;
Lacan, Jacques
;
Barthes, Roland
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Criticism
;
Civilization, Modern 20th century
;
Popular culture History 20th century
;
Intellectual life-History
;
Electronic books
;
Barthes, Roland
;
Lacan, Jacques ; 1901-1981
;
Popular culture ; History ; 20th century
;
Civilization, Modern ; 20th century
;
Popular culture ; United States ; History ; 20th century
;
Criticism
;
United States ; Civilization ; 20th century
;
Bakhtin, M. M ; (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich) ; 1895-1975
;
United States Civilization 20th century
Abstract:
In High Theory/Low Culture, Brottman uses the tools of 'high' cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sport, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror movies and pornography
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Popular Culture and Its Critics; 1 Carnival and Chronotope: Bakhtin and Style Magazines; 2 Joyful Mayhem: Bakhtin and Football Fans; 3 Rumor, Gossip, and Scandal: Barthes and Tabloid Rhetoric; 4 ""The Last Stop of Desire"": Roland Barthes Goes Shopping; 5 Blueprints and Bodies: Lacan and the Pornographic Imagination; 6 Dark Homecomings: Lacan and Horror Fictions; Afterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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