Mass Culture

Author : James Naremore
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991-03-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253206278

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Modernity and Mass Culture by James Naremore Pdf

"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.

Author : Amy Bliss Marshall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487502867

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Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan by Amy Bliss Marshall Pdf

Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home). These magazines served to embed new instruments of mass communication and socialization within Japanese society and created mechanisms to facilitate the dissemination of hegemonic forms of discourse in the first half of the twentieth century. The amazing success of Kingu and Ie no hikari during the 1920s and 1930s not only established and normalized participation in a Japanese mass national audience - a community which had previously not existed - but also facilitated the rise of Japanese mass consumer culture in the postwar years. Amy Bliss Marshall argues that the postwar mass national consumer in Japan is foreshadowed by the mass national audience created by family magazines of the interwar era. This book narrates the development of such publications, one explicitly capitalist and one outwardly agrarian, based on missions with an overarching desire to create a mass audience. Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan highlights the importance of the seemingly innocuous acts of mass leisure consumption of magazines and the goods advertised therein, aiding our understanding of the creation and direction of a new form of social participation and understanding - an essential part of not only the culture but also the politics of the interwar period.

Author : B. Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0029270804

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Mass Culture by B. Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Theodor W Adorno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000158724

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The Culture Industry by Theodor W Adorno Pdf

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest essays are collected here, offering the reader unparalleled insights into Adorno's thoughts on culture. He argued that the culture industry commodified and standardized all art. In turn this suffocated individuality and destroyed critical thinking. At the time, Adorno was accused of everything from overreaction to deranged hysteria by his many detractors. In today's world, where even the least cynical of consumers is aware of the influence of the media, Adorno's work takes on a more immediate significance. The Culture Industry is an unrivalled indictment of the banality of mass culture.

Author : Peter Gibian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135208547

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Mass Culture and Everyday Life by Peter Gibian Pdf

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday lives in recent years: from Hillary's hairdo to tampons, exercise fads and fashion trends; from soaps to opera to rythmn and blues; from horror movies to the interrelation of cats, pigs and mothers in Babe. This volume includes ground-breaking essays on: the boom of talk radio and talk TV; shopping as cinematic spectacle; and how "everyday life" in the university community has become a key battleground in America's "culture wars." The direct, accessible, and refreshingly personal work speak not only to an academic audience but to a wide general readership.

Author : James L. Baughman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015036092511

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The Republic of Mass Culture by James L. Baughman Pdf

In his highly praised Republic of Mass Culture, James L. Baughman offers a lively analysis of the impact that the advent of television has had on America's media industries. He contends that because television had captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival media were forced to target smaller, "sub-group" markets with novel content that ranged from rock 'n' roll for teenage radio listeners in the 1950s to the more sexually explicit films that began to appear in the 1960s. For this updated edition, Baughman includes in his discussion the effects of the new competitive realities of the 1990s on journalism, filmmaking, and broadcasting. The dominance of marketplace values, he argues, has further fragmented the mass audience, encouraged record-breaking mergers between media companies, and precipitated a steady and alarming decline in the quality of and public interest in journalism, a trend that may ultimately threaten American democracy.

Author : Bart Beaty
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781604730715

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Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by Bart Beaty Pdf

This book is a re-examination of the critic whose Congressional testimony sparked the Comics Code. Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects on youth and society. When The Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, Wertham (1895-1981) became instantly known as an authority on child psychology. Although he had published several books before Seduction, its sharp criticism of popular culture in general--and comic books in particular--made it a touchstone for debate about issues of censorship, child protection, and freedom of speech. This book reinterprets his intellectual legacy and challenges notions about his alleged cultural conservatism. Drawing upon Wertham's published works as well as his unpublished private papers, correspondence, and notes, Beaty reveals a man whose opinions, life, and career offer more subtlety of thought than previously assumed. In particular, the book examines Wertham's change of heart in the 1970s, when he began to claim that comics could be a positive influence in American society.

Author : Alan Swingewood
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Communism and culture
ISBN : 0333214080

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The Myth of Mass Culture by Alan Swingewood Pdf

Author : Thomas F. Strychacz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521440793

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Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism by Thomas F. Strychacz Pdf

A study of four modernist writers and their relationship to their critics and era.

Author : Donald Lazere
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0520044959

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American Media and Mass Culture by Donald Lazere Pdf

"On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture--from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers." -- Book Jacket.

Author : James von Geldern,Richard Stites
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253013392

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Mass Culture in Soviet Russia by James von Geldern,Richard Stites Pdf

This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface are represented. The focus is on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses. The period covered encompasses the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the mixed economy and culture of the 1920s, the tightly controlled Stalinist 1930s, the looser atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War, and the postwar era ending with the death of Stalin. Much of the material appears here in English for the first time. A companion 45-minute audio tape (ISBN 0-253-32911-6) features contemporaneous performances of fifteen popular songs of the time, with such favorites as "Bublichki," "The Blue Kerchief," and "Katyusha." Russian texts of the songs are included in the book.

Author : Amy Bliss Marshall
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487516178

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Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan by Amy Bliss Marshall Pdf

Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home). These magazines served to embed new instruments of mass communication and socialization within Japanese society and created mechanisms to facilitate the dissemination of hegemonic forms of discourse in the first half of the twentieth century. The amazing success of Kingu and Ie no hikari during the 1920s and 1930s not only established and normalized participation in a Japanese mass national audience – a community which had previously not existed – but also facilitated the rise of Japanese mass consumer culture in the postwar years. Amy Bliss Marshall argues that the postwar mass national consumer in Japan is foreshadowed by the mass national audience created by family magazines of the interwar era. This book narrates the development of such publications, one explicitly capitalist and one outwardly agrarian, based on missions with an overarching desire to create a mass audience. Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan highlights the importance of the seemingly innocuous acts of mass leisure consumption of magazines and the goods advertised therein, aiding our understanding of the creation and direction of a new form of social participation and understanding – an essential part of not only the culture but also the politics of the interwar period.

Author : Leo Lowenthal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412827645

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Literature and Mass Culture by Leo Lowenthal Pdf

This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents Lowenthal’s contributions to a theory of the role of communication in modern society. This volume lays out the basis for a theory of mass culture. Lowenthal demonstrates that the juxtaposition of a “low"mass culture and a “high"esoteric culture did not originate in contemporary industrial, bourgeois society but can be traced back to the Middle Ages and antiquity.

Author : Patricia Cormack
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802086861

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Sociology and Mass Culture by Patricia Cormack Pdf

Cormack investigates the broad cultural significance and relevance of academic sociology by examining its on-going relationship with modernity and mass culture.

Author : Walter Armbrust
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484928

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Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt by Walter Armbrust Pdf

A study of popular culture and the representation of modern life in Egypt.