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High Theory/Low Culture
Mikita Brottman
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Description for High Theory/Low Culture
Hardcover. Num Pages: 186 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 163 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
157
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403966407
SKU
V9781403966407
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99-15
About Mikita Brottman
MIKITA BROTTMAN is Professor of Language and Literature, Maryland Institute College of Art, USA.
Reviews for High Theory/Low Culture
"In this brilliant book, Mikita Brottman penetrates the surface of pop culture texts, from magazines and tabloids, to horror movies and erotic flicks, to provide a truly discerning theory as to why people respond so emotionally to them. Unlike the bland, trendy, pseudo-sophisticated critiques of pop culture by many academic pundits that now saturate the bookstands, Brottman shows that popular ... Read more