Bread and Circuses : Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay / / by Patrick Brantlinger.
Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1983. ©1983. |
| Year of Publication: | 1983 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The Two Classicisms
- 2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate
- 3. "The Opium of the People"
- 4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals
- 5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence
- 6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus
- 7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment
- 8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism
- 9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society
- Index