| Beautiful Things Contributor(s): McKee, Alan (Editor) |
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ISBN: 140513190X ISBN-13: 9781405131902 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $92.10 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2006 Annotation: From Batman to motor bikes, pop stars to Internet pornography, "Beautiful Things in Popular Culture" examines the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects. As the soldiers of the Culture Wars continue to argue whether it is better to study Shakespeare or television shows, this little book dispels the myth that consumers are unaware of quality, mindlessly consuming whatever is put in front of them. Smart and sassy, yet erudite, these thirteen essays are authored by an internationally renowned group of cultural commentators including Simon Frith, John Hartley, Henry Jenkins, John Banks, Marc Brennan, Will Brooker, Claire Gould, Margaret Henderson, Sara Gwenllian Jones, Alan McKee, Mark McLelland, Thomas McLaughlin, Glen Thomas, and Sue Turnbull. Together they probe the passion and excitement surrounding icons in popular culture. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 2006001715 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.34" W x 9.04" (1.1 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.
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