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Bread & circuses : theories of mass culture as social decay /
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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1985, ©1983.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.