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High theory, low culture, Mikita Brottman

eng

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-154) and index

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non fiction

High theory, low culture

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Mikita Brottman

Brottman uses the tools of high cultural theory to examine many areas of current popular culture, including style magazines, tabloid newspapers, pornography, horror movies, sport & shopping, revealling how the popular culture that we usually take for granted is much more complex & sophisticated than often assumed., In High Theory/Low Culture , Brottman uses the tools of 'high' cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sport, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror movies and pornography. In doing so, she not only demonstrates the practical use of 'high' theory as it relates to our everyday world, but she also investigates the kinds of 'low' culture that are regularly dismissed by academic scholars. Through a close examination of these cultural forms, Brottman reveals how the kinds of popular culture that we usually take for granted are, in fact, far more complex and sophisticated than is normally assumed