Tag Archives: Popular culture
Watching Television
Todd Gitlin discusses television and American culture in the mid-1980s and his study of program types, including soap operas, MTV, the series America, commercials, and news reporting. He edited a volume of essays titled Watching Television: A Pantheon Guide to Popular … Continue reading
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Tagged Humanities, media, Popular culture, Television
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The Case for Popular Culture, Part 1 of 2: Literature and Film
Colin MacCabe contends that an understanding of twentieth-century literature is impossible without an understanding of film. In the academy, written forms of literature have been valorized historically, but, as viewed from the mid-1980s, the recognition of film as art and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, Film, Literature, Motion pictures -- Social aspects, Popular culture
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