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Roll over Adorno : critical theory, popular culture, audiovisual media / Robert Miklitsch.
Van Pelt Library PN1992.6 .M49 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miklitsch, Robert, 1953-
- Series:
- SUNY series in postmodern culture
- The SUNY series in postmodern culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects--United States.
- Television broadcasting.
- Television broadcasting--Social aspects.
- Popular music--Social aspects.
- Popular music.
- United States.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--United States.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects.
- Popular music--Social aspects--United States.
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In a series of readings and meditations, Robert Miklitsch investigates the postmodern nexus between elite and popular culture as it occurs in the audiovisual fields of film, music, and television-ranging from Gershwin to gangsta rap, Tarantino to Tongues Untied, Tony Soprano to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miklitsch argues that the aim of critical theory in the new century will be to describe and explain these commodities in ever greater phenomenological detail without losing touch with those evaluative criteria that have historically sustained both Kulturkritik and classical aesthetics.
- Contents:
- Script xvii
- Introduction: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media 1
- Popular Music 3
- Sound Film 8
- Television 15
- Part 1 Popular Music: Hi-Lo Fidelity 23
- 1 Rock 'n' Theory: Cultural Studies, Autobiography, and the Death of Rock 25
- A Side: The Birth of Rock, or Memory Train 25
- B Side: Rock in Theory 29
- The Culture of Rock 30
- Rock, Rap, and Riot Grrrls 33
- World Musics: After Rock Imperialism 35
- Production of Culture 36
- Forced Choice: Britney or Avril? 38
- My Generation 40
- 2 Roll Over Adorno: Beethoven, Chuck Berry, and Popular Music in the Age of MP3 43
- Mass Culture, Ersatz Kantianism 44
- From Beethoven to Fascism 46
- Amerika: Beethoven or Bikinis 47
- Radio Days 49
- "Roll Over Beethoven" 52
- Magic Spell and the Two Spheres of Music 54
- MP3 57
- Fantasia 58
- Reprise: Beethoven's Hair 61
- Part 2 Sound Film: Screen Theory and Audiovisuality 67
- 3 The Suture Scenario: Audiovisuality and Post-Screen Theory 69
- Theory: The Suture Scenario 70
- Post-Screen Theory: Suture-as-Desuturing 72
- Audiovisuality in Tongues United and Set It Off 73
- Illustration A Tongues United 74
- Illustration B Set If Off 79
- 4 Audiophilia: Audiovisual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in Jackie Brown 91
- Cinephilia 92
- Scopophilia 94
- From Scopophilia to Audiophilia: The Gaze qua Race 96
- Audiophilia: Auditing Jackie Brown 98
- "Across 110th Street": Overture 99
- "Street Life": Jackie as Femme Noire 101
- "Across 110th Street": Denouement 107
- Audiophilia Reconsidered: "Asking for It" 111
- Counterpoint: Post-Soul Music or Pre-Gangsta Rap? 117
- Reprise: Alex's "Lovely Ludwig Van" and Marty Mcfly's White Rock Ministrel Show 121
- Part 3 TV: Television, Telephilia, Televisuality 133
- 5 Gen-X TV: Political-Libidinal Structures of Feeling in Melrose Place 135
- After the Reagan Dynasty: "Help Me, Rhonda" 138
- From Race to Sex-Gender: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 142
- The Romance of Capital: Fox, Female Address, and Postfeminism 144
- Melrose Space: The Fashion Mode 147
- Adcult: The Commercial Supertext 149
- Review 151
- 6 Shot/Countershot: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodern Style in The Sopranos 153
- Shot: The Godfather 154
- Citationality: The Gangster as Serio-Comic Hero 154
- "I'm a Man": Crossing Cultures 157
- Psycho-Gangster TV: Seriality and Self-Reflexivity 159
- A la Recherche du temps perdu 160
- Primal Scene: Capicola as Proustian "Tea Cookie" 162
- Countershot: Case Study 164
- Black and Blue: Puzo's Women 166
- Repetition Compulsion: From The Godfather to The Sopranos 167
- Beyond the University 168
- Post-Mortem: Bad Love 172
- D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Tele-Psychoanalytic Metatext 173
- Analysis Interminable 175
- Martini Shot: "Hall Hath No Fury" 179
- Reprise: Tony Soprano, Meet Buffy the Vampire Slayer 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791467333
- 0791467341
- OCLC:
- 60550541
- Publisher Number:
- 9780791467336
- 9780791467343
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