High theory/low culture
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High theory/low culture
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index
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Description
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. In doing so, she not only demonstrates the practical use of 'high' theory as it relates to our everyday world, but she also investigates the kinds of 'low' culture that are regularly dismissed by academic scholars. Through a close examination of these cultural forms, Brottman reveals how the kinds of popular culture that we usually take for granted are, in fact, far more complex and sophisticated than is normally assumed.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Popular Culture and its Critics Bakhtin and Style Magazines 'Joyful Mayhem': Bakhtin and Football Barthes and Tabloid Newspapers Roland Barthes Goes Shopping 'Blue Prints and Bodies': Lacan and Pornography Lacan and the Horror Film Conclusion Bibliography
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