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Apocalipticos E Integrados/ Apocalyptics and integrators (Filosofia)

by Umberto Eco

First Published

2004

Subjects

Social aspects
Popular culture
Mass media
Social aspects of Mass media
Italy, social life and customs
Mass media, social aspects
Essays (single author)
Cultura popular
Communication
Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Mass media--social aspects
Mass media--social aspects--italy
Popular culture--italy
Hm101 .e28 1994
306

Description

An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organized in four main parts, "Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed," "Mass Media and the Limits of Communication," "The Rise and Fall of Counter-Cultures," and "In Search of Italian Genius," Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's Ginger and Fred, and the Italian genius industry.

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