Readings in popular culture : trivial pursuits?
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Readings in popular culture : trivial pursuits?
（Insights）
Macmillan, 1990
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hard ISBN 9780333475225
Description
This is the first book since Roland Barthes' Mythologies to take a comprehensive look at popular culture. The twenty six essays in this volume, all written by specialists, cover a range of topics from t-shirts to computers. While each essay reflects some aspect of contemporary cultural theory, a number also develop original approaches to questions of whether popular culture is a condition or a representation of experience and how it manages to both resist and reproduce consumer capitalism. Together, these essays present an exciting reinterpretation of popular culture which will appeal to anyone interested in this important subject.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations - Preface and Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: Popular Culture: The Conditions of Control?
- G.Day - MacDonalds' Man meets Reader's Digest
- C.Bloom - Acid: Burning a Hole in the Present
- H.Blakemore - Hampton Court Revisited: A Reevaluation of the Consumer
- A.Smith - Henry's Paperweight: The Banks and TV Advertising
- R.M.Chaplin - 'A Thing of Beauty and a Source of Wonderment': Ornaments for the Home as Cultural Status Markers
- G.Roberts - Pose for Thought: Bodybuilding and other Matters
- G.Day - Dialogic Society: Discourse and Subjectivity in British Telecom's 'Talkabout' Service
- A.Page - T-Shirts and the Coming Collapse of Capitalism
- P.O'Flinn - Recipes for Success
- M.J.Hayes - That's Entertainment
- G.Day - Christmas: Celebrating the Humbug
- N.Wordsworth - War Toys
- G.Dawson - Family Affairs: Angst in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- S.Young - Is the Micro Macho? A Critique of the Fictions of Advertising
- M.Knight - A Second Byte of the Apple
- G.Simpson - Pleasure and Danger, Sex and Death: Reading True Crime Monthlies
- D.Cameron - Illiberal Thoughts on 'Page 3'
- B.Brecher - The Golden Age of Cricket
- J.Simons - Bertolt Brecht and Football, Or Playwright Versus Playmaker
- B.Emslie - The Woman's Realm: History Repeats Itself on the Women's Page
- A.Treneman - G-Men to Jar Wars: Conditioning the Public
- M.Woodiwiss - Chaos and Order: The New York Subway
- R.Bradbury - 'And Where Did you See Star Wars?': Cinema Going in Britain
- L.Cooke - Museums of Fine Art and their Public
- A.Crabbe - American National Identity and the Structure of Myth: Images of Reagan
- R.J.Ellis - Index
- H.Day
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780333475232
Description
The "Insights" series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best in contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. Each contribution concentrates on a study of a particular work, author or genre in its artistic, historical and cultural context. The 25 essays in this volume, all of which set out to take a look at popular culture, cover a range of topics from T-shirts to computers. A number of the essays examine whether popular culture is a condition or a representation of experience and how it resists and reproduces consumer capitalism.
Table of Contents
- Popular culture - the conditions of control?, Gary Day
- MacDonalds' man meets "Reader's Digest", Clive Bloom
- acid - burning a hole in the present, Helena Blakemore
- Hampton Court revisited - a re-evaluation of the consumer, Andrew Smith
- Henry's paperweight - the banks and TV advertising, Robert M.Chaplin
- "a thing of beauty and a source of wonderment" - ornaments for the home as cultural status markers, Gwyneth Roberts
- pose for thought - bodybuilding and other matters, Gary Day
- dialogic society - discourse and subjectivity in British Telecom's "Talkabout" service, Adrian Page
- T-shirts and the coming collapse of capitalism, Paul O'Flinn
- recipes for success, Michael J.Hayes
- that's entertainment, Gary Day
- Christmas - celebrating the humbug, Norma Wordsworth
- war toys, Graham Dawson
- family affairs - angst in the age of mechanical reproduction, Shelagh Young
- is the micro macho? - a critique of the fictions of advertising, Mary Knight
- a second byte of the apple, Gill Simpson
- pleasure and danger, sex and death - reading "True Crime" monthlies, Deborah Cameron
- illiberal thoughts on "page 3", Bob Brecher
- the Golden Age of cricket, John Simons
- Bertolt Brecht and football, or playwright versus playmaker, Barry Emslie
- the woman's realm - history repeats itself on the women's page, Ann Treneman
- G-men to Jar wars - conditioning the public, Michael Woodiwiss
- chaos and order - the New York subway, Richard Bradbury
- "and where did you see Star Wars?" - cinema going in Britain, Lez Cooke
- museums of fine art and their public, Anthony Crabbe
- American national identity and the structure of myth - images of Reagan, R.J.Ellis.
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