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Author Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941-

Title Bread & circuses : theories of mass culture as social decay / by Patrick Brantlinger.

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1985, ©1983.

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Description 1 online resource (307 pages)
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.
Note Cornell paperbacks.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Subject Mass media -- Social aspects -- History.
Mass society -- History.
Culture.
Popular culture.
Classicism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
Classicism. (OCoLC)fst00863557
Culture. (OCoLC)fst00885059
Mass media -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01011303
Mass society. (OCoLC)fst01011430
Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Added Title Bread and circuses
Other Form: Print version: Brantlinger, Patrick, 1941- Bread & circuses. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1985, ©1983 0801493382 (DLC) 83045134 (OCoLC)12401718
ISBN 9781501707643 (electronic bk.)
1501707647 (electronic bk.)
0801493382
9780801493386
0801415985
9780801415982
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