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Item Details
Title:
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HIGH-POP
MAKING CULTURE INTO POPULAR ENTERTAINMENT |
By: |
Jim Collins (Editor) |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£103.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0631222103 |
ISBN 13: |
9780631222101 |
Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
Pub. date: |
11 January, 2002 |
Pages: |
248 |
Description: |
One of the developments in the popular culture of the past has been the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences. This book is a collection of essays that explores this cultural formation across disciplines and media - from film, television, and interior design/material culture to publishing, music, and museum exhibition. |
Synopsis: |
One of the most significant developments in the popular culture of the past decade has been the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences. Blockbuster museum shows, high-concept literary adaptations, widespread interest in interior design, and superstar opera singers all suggest that the relationship between 'high art and popular culture is undergoing a profound transformation. But what does this marriage of 'good taste' and popular culture really mean? "High-Pop" is a collection of newly commissioned essays that explores this cultural formation across disciplines and media - from film, television, and interior design/material culture to publishing, music, and museum exhibition.Drawing on contemporary instances of a global phenomenon, nine leading thinkers explore a number of important issues central to cultural criticism: the increasingly unsettled relationship between the public and private spheres; the blurring distinction between consumer culture and aesthetic value; the impact of high-pop on our cultural identity; and, the nature and the future of popular culture itself.An edited collection with a genuinely polemical agenda, "High-Pop" does nothing less than issue a challenge to the project of cultural studies to focus on all but ignored forms of mainstream culture. |
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0 |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Blackwell Publishers |
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