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Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America
Taschenbuch von Paul R. Gorman
Sprache: Englisch

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Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular theater, motion pictures, and dance halls to hit records, romance novels, and television are harmful to the public. This critique of popular culture continues today, with condemnations of television shows like NYPD Blue and increasing fears about the purported effects of rap or hip-hop music. In this sweeping historical study, Paul Gorman exposes the contradictory nature of this cultural critique. As Gorman shows, popular culture had faced growing denunciation in the 1890s, primarily from conservative writers dismayed at the state of modern values. But in the Progressive Era, intellectuals with liberal sympathies weighed in, complaining that modern entertainments were created to debase and exploit a passive, helpless public. Ironically, they thus initiated a strain of criticism in which the very intellectuals who championed democratic ideals portrayed citizens as dangerously manipulable victims and promoted patronizing plans for their rescue.
Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular theater, motion pictures, and dance halls to hit records, romance novels, and television are harmful to the public. This critique of popular culture continues today, with condemnations of television shows like NYPD Blue and increasing fears about the purported effects of rap or hip-hop music. In this sweeping historical study, Paul Gorman exposes the contradictory nature of this cultural critique. As Gorman shows, popular culture had faced growing denunciation in the 1890s, primarily from conservative writers dismayed at the state of modern values. But in the Progressive Era, intellectuals with liberal sympathies weighed in, complaining that modern entertainments were created to debase and exploit a passive, helpless public. Ironically, they thus initiated a strain of criticism in which the very intellectuals who championed democratic ideals portrayed citizens as dangerously manipulable victims and promoted patronizing plans for their rescue.
Über den Autor
Paul R. Gorman is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780807845561
ISBN-10: 0807845566
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gorman, Paul R.
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Paul R. Gorman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1996
Gewicht: 0,448 kg
Artikel-ID: 107322127
Über den Autor
Paul R. Gorman is assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780807845561
ISBN-10: 0807845566
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gorman, Paul R.
Hersteller: The University of North Carolina Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Paul R. Gorman
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.1996
Gewicht: 0,448 kg
Artikel-ID: 107322127
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