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— Washington Post Book World
Twitchell's witty, wide-ranging book exposes the changes in publishing, movie making, and TV programming since the 1960s that have wreaked havoc on American taste. "Vividly dissects American entertainment."--Newsweek. 51 illustrations.
Editorial Reviews
New York Times Book Review
[Twitchell cites] numerous examples of crassness, inanity and sheer disregard for the idea of quality in publishing, television, and the movies.... A veritable catalogue of vulgarity.Newsweek
Vividly dissects American entertainment.San Francisco Chronicle
More horrifying than anything Stephen King could concoct.Newsweek
Vividly dissects American entertainment.San Francisco Chronicle
More horrifying than anything Stephen King could concoct.New York Times Book Review
[Twitchell cites] numerous examples of crassness, inanity and sheer disregard for the idea of quality in publishing, television, and the movies. . . . A veritable catalogue of vulgarity.Washington Post Book World
A rich compendium of information about the machinery that makes the carnival run.School Library Journal
YA-- Are the three great purveyors of mass culture in the U. S.--book publishing, motion pictures, and television--creating a culture that glorifies the vulgar and the mediocre at the expense of worthwhile qualities in American life? According to the author of this often humorous and sarcastic but cogently reasoned book, the answer, unfortunately, is ``Yes.'' Surveying a vast wasteland of American pop culture through a trail of such icons as professional wrestling, Madonna, Stephen King novels, and ``America's Funniest Home Videos,'' Twitchell believes that the media has raised the ``low-brow'' to a level of respectability that excludes what used to be high brow from American life. This is a provocative book that should get the attention of YA readers, who are, the author maintains, the major target and biggest fans of the new ``trash'' culture.-- Richard Lisker, Fairfax County Public Library, Fairfax, VAProduct Details
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Meet the Author
James B. Twitchell teaches English and advertising at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His many books include Adcult USA: The Triumph of Advertising in American Culture and Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism, both published by Columbia.
Columbia University Press