| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 262 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
The SUNY series in postmodern culture |
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SUNY series in postmodern culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-252) and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction : critical theory, popular culture, audiovisual media -- 1. Rock 'n' theory : cultural studies, autobiography, and the death of rock -- 2. Roll over Adorno : Beethoven, Chuck Berry, and popular music in the age of MP3 -- Reprise : Beethoven's hair -- 3. suture scenario : audiovisuality and post-screen theory -- 4. Audiophilia : audiovisual pleasure and narrative cinema in Jackie Brown -- Reprise : Alex's "lovely Ludwig Van" and Marty McFly's White Rock Minstrel Show -- 5. Gen-X TV : political-libidinal structures of feeling in Melrose Place -- 6. Shot/countershot : sexuality, psychoanalysis, and postmodern style in The sopranos. |
| Summary |
Annotation What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In a series of readings and meditations, Robert Miklitsch investigates the postmodern nexus between elite and popular culture as it occurs in the audiovisual fields of film, music, and television-ranging from Gershwin to gangsta rap, Tarantino to Tongues Untied, Tony Soprano to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miklitsch argues that the aim of critical theory in the new century will be to describe and explain these commodities in ever greater phenomenological detail without losing touch with those evaluative criteria that have historically sustained both Kulturkritik and classical aesthetics. Book jacket. |
| Subject |
Television broadcasting -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Popular music -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01027384
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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Popular music -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01071460
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Television broadcasting -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01146764
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miklitsch, Robert, 1953- Roll over Adorno. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791467333 0791467341 (DLC) 2005015254 (OCoLC)60550541 |
| ISBN |
1423780388 (electronic book) |
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9781423780380 (electronic book) |
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