| Modernity and Mass Culture Contributor(s): Naremore, James (Editor), Brantlinger, Patrick M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0253206278 ISBN-13: 9780253206275 Publisher: Indiana University Press OUR PRICE: $23.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1991 Annotation: Modernity and Mass Culture is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. US and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. Their essays deal with advertisements, films, recorded music, television, and mass-market literature. Among the topics discussed are assembly-line manufacturing, home entertainment, popular reception, avant-garde theory, "post-feminist" fiction, and "retro" style. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art |
| Dewey: 700.103 |
| LCCN: 90041881 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies. --Texas Journal This is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. U.S. and British scholars discuss the interaction of high, popular, and mass art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era. |