High theory/low culture / Mikita Brottman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brottman, Mikita, 1966-

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Civilization, Modern--20th century.

Civilization, Modern.

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Criticism.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

United States.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Barthes, Roland.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXIX, 157 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2005.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 'high' theory as it relates to our everyday world, but she also investigates the kinds of 'low' culture that are regularly dismissed by academic scholars. Through a close examination of these cultural forms, Brottman reveals how the kinds of popular culture that we usually take for granted are, in fact, far more complex and sophisticated than is normally assumed.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611363697

9781281363695

1281363693

9781403978226

1403978220