High Theory/Low Culture

by Mikita Brottman

Book Overview

In High Theory/Low Culture, Mikita Brottman uses the tools of "high" cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sports, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403966419
• ISBN13: 9781403966414
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Well-informed cultural analysis

This is a very clear, intelligent cultural analysis of Barthes, Bakhtin and Lacan, and how their work can be applied to today's popular culture (most of the examples are British, but not too obscure). Nice, concise summaries of theorists and their work.