Artificial mythologies [[electronic resource] ] : a guide to cultural invention / / Craig J. Saper ; foreword by Laura Kipnis

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457379403321
• Autore: Saper Craig J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997
• ISBN: 0-8166-8773-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Disciplina: 801
• Soggetti: Popular culture in literature; Aesthetics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Artificial Mythologies and Invention; 2 Mapping Television; 3 Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in Photography and Film; 4 Urban Decay and the Aesthetics of Social Policy; 5 The Role of the Public Intellectual; 6 Family Values and Media Technology; 7 Wonder; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In this exhilarating guide, Craig J. Saper takes us on an eye-opening tour of the process of cultural invention-willfully entertaining foolish, absurd, even fake, solutions as a way of reaching new perspectives on cultural problems. Saper deploys this method to reveal unsuspected connections among major cultural issues, such as urban decay, the dangers of television's power, family values, and conservative criticism of higher education.