Artificial Mythologies : A Guide to Cultural Invention
In this exhilarating guide, Craig J. Saper takes us on an eye-opening tour of the process of cultural invention--willfully entertaining foolish, absurd, even fake, solutions as a way of reaching new perspectives on cultural problems. Saper deploys this method to reveal unsuspected connections among...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1997.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 Artificial Mythologies and Invention; 2 Mapping Television; 3 Multiculturalism and Identity Politics in Photography and Film; 4 Urban Decay and the Aesthetics of Social Policy; 5 The Role of the Public Intellectual; 6 Family Values and Media Technology; 7 Wonder; Notes; Index.