LEADER 03647oam 22007574a 450 001 9910136647003321 005 20230621140747.0 010 $a1-5017-0763-9 010 $a1-5017-0764-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501707643 035 $a(CKB)3710000000888711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4843511 035 $a(OCoLC)648462447 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse55749 035 $a(DE-B1597)480036 035 $a(OCoLC)979581332 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501707643 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5493936 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5493936 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42443 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000888711 100 $a19830624d1983 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBread and Circuses$eTheories of Mass Culture as Social Decay /$fby Patrick Brantlinger 210 $cCornell University Press$d1983 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d1983. 210 4$dİ1983. 215 $a1 online resource (310 pages) 311 $a0-8014-1598-5 311 $a0-8014-9338-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction: The Two Classicisms --$t2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate --$t3. "The Opium of the People" --$t4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals --$t5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence --$t6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus --$t7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment --$t8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism --$t9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society --$tIndex 330 $aLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay-a belief today perpetuated by the mass media themselves-has become the dominant view of mass culture in our time. While not defending mass culture in its present form, Brantlinger argues that the view of culture implicit in negative classicism obscures the question of how the media can best be used to help achieve freedom and enlightenment on a truly democratic basis. 606 $aClassicism 606 $aPopular culture 606 $aCulture 606 $aMass society$xHistory 606 $aMass media$xSocial aspects$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $adecadence 610 $ahistorical inevitability 610 $acrowd psychology 610 $aSigmund Freud 610 $apopular culture 610 $amass culture 610 $aclassicism 610 $amass media 610 $asocial decay 610 $aMarshall McLuhan 615 0$aClassicism. 615 0$aPopular culture. 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aMass society$xHistory. 615 0$aMass media$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 676 $a302.2/34 700 $aBrantlinger$b Patrick$f1941-$0545092 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910136647003321 996 $aBread and Circuses$92180564 997 $aUNINA