A history of popular culture : more of everything, faster and brighter / Raymond Betts ; with Lyz Bly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Betts, Raymond F., author.

Contributor:

Bly, Lyz.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--History.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.A History of Popular Culture explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War Two: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. Betts considers the dominance of American entertainment media and habits of consumption, assessing adaptation and negative reactions to this inf

Contents:

Cover; A History of Popular Culture: More of Everything, Faster and Brighter; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Popular culture in the early twentieth-century world; 2 Popular culture joins the war effort; 3 Reconfiguring time and space; 4 Picture this: A new world of images; 5 All the world's a stage: Contemporary entertainment in its many forms; 6 Happily spaced out: The topography of pleasure and diversion; 7 The unintended outcomes; Conclusion: Reconditioning the human condition; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-16026-4

0-203-07948-5

1-283-89348-7

1-136-16027-2

9780203079485

OCLC:

823389681