High theory/low culture

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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 &#...

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Main Author: Brottman, Mikita, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Bakhtin, M. M. > (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), > 1895-1975.
Barthes, Roland.
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Popular culture > History > 20th century.
Civilization, Modern > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Criticism.
criticism.
literary criticism.
United States > Civilization > 20th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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