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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961588303321

Autore

Brottman Mikita <1966->

Titolo

High theory/low culture / / Mikita Brottman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

9786611363697

9781281363695

1281363693

9781403978226

1403978220

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIX, 157 p.)

Disciplina

306/.0973

Soggetti

Popular culture - History - 20th century

Civilization, Modern - 20th century

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Criticism

United States Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : popular culture and its critics -- 1. Carnival and chronotope : Bakhtin and style magazines -- 2. Joyful mayhem : Bakhtin and football fans -- 3. Rumor, gossip, and scandal : Barthes and tabloid rhetoric -- 4. "The last stop of desire" : Roland Barthes goes shopping -- 5. Blueprints and bodies : Lacan and the pornographic imagination -- 6. Dark homecomings : Lacan and horror fictions.

Sommario/riassunto

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.