Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism / Edition 1

by Jim Collins

Overview

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415901376
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/24/1989
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Hometown:

Boulder, Colorado

Date of Birth:

January 25, 1958

Place of Birth:

Aurora, Colorado

Education:

B.S. in mathematical sciences, Stanford University, 1980; M.B.A., Stanford University, 1983

Website:

http://www.jimcollins.com

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Cultural Fragmentation and the Rise of Discursive Ideologies; Chapter 2 Life in the Arena: Intertextuality in Decentered Cultures; Chapter 3 Speaking in Tongues: The Languages of Popular Narrative; Chapter 4 Discursive Ideologies and Popular Film; Chapter 5 Post-Modernism as Culmination: The Aesthetic Politics of Decentered Cultures;