1st Edition

No Respect Intellectuals and Popular Culture

By Andrew Ross Copyright 1989
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up... Read more
Acknowledgments, No Respect: An Introduction, 1. Reading the Rosenberg Letters, 2. Containing Culture in the Cold War, 3. Hip, and the Long Front of Color, 4. Candid Cameras, 5. Uses of Camp, 6. The Popularity of Pornography, 7. Defenders of the Faith and the New Class, Notes, Index

Biography

Andrew Ross