1st Edition

Mass Culture and Everyday Life

Edited By Peter Gibian Copyright 1997
312 Pages
by Routledge

310 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday lives in recent years: from Hillary's hairdo to tampons, exercise fads and fashion trends;... Read more
Part 1 Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?; Chapter 1 The TABLOIDStory, Jean Franco; Chapter 2 On/Against Mass Culture Theories; Chapter 3 Whose Cultural Studies?, Renata Rosaldo; Part 2 It's All Academic; Chapter 4 Disciplining the University; Chapter 5 Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt; Chapter 6 Professors, Dana Polan; Chapter 7 The Age of the World Target, Rey Chow; Part 3 Mass Media I; Chapter 8 Another World?, Tania Modleski; Chapter 9 Eros and Syphilization, Dana Polan; Part 4 Mass Media II; Chapter 10 Newspeak Meets Newstalk, Peter Gibian; Chapter 11 Hello, You're on the Air, Jean Franco; Chapter 12 No, She Really Loves Eggs, Mary Louise Pratt; Part 5 Bodily Functions; Chapter 13 In the Belly of the Beast, Maria Damon; Chapter 14 National Security Leak; Chapter 15 Some Babe, Tania Modleski; Chapter 16 Angelo logy, Maria Damon; Chapter 17 Jazzercise, Mary Louise Pratt; Part 6 Everyday Life Environments; Chapter 18 Breaking Silence, or an Old Wives' Tale, Tania Modleski; Chapter 19 Who's the Boss?, Gene Santoro; Chapter 20 The Art of Being Off-Center, Peter Gibian;

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