02897oam 2200625I 450 991077930430332120230803020154.01-136-16026-40-203-07948-51-283-89348-71-136-16027-210.4324/9780203079485 (CKB)2550000000710781(EBL)1101322(OCoLC)823389681(SSID)ssj0000831370(PQKBManifestationID)12307126(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000831370(PQKBWorkID)10873013(PQKB)11025411(MiAaPQ)EBC1101322(Au-PeEL)EBL1101322(CaPaEBR)ebr10640454(CaONFJC)MIL420598(OCoLC)823170529(FINmELB)ELB133128(EXLCZ)99255000000071078120180706d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA history of popular culture more of everything, faster and brighter /Raymond Betts ; with Lyz Bly2nd ed.London ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (201 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-67437-9 0-415-67436-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Popular culture in the early twentieth-century world; 2 Popular culture joins the war effort; 3 Reconfiguring time and space; 4 Picture this: A new world of images; 5 All the world's a stage: Contemporary entertainment in its many forms; 6 Happily spaced out: The topography of pleasure and diversion; 7 The unintended outcomes; Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition; Bibliography; IndexThis lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. Betts considers the dominance of American entertainment media and habits of consumption, assessing adaptation and negative reactions to this infPopular cultureHistoryPopular cultureHistory.306Betts Raymond F.242939Bly Lyz1474678MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779304303321A history of popular culture3708435UNINA