Bread and Circuses - Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay

Patrick Brantlinger is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University. He is the author of many books, including Dark Vanishings, Fictions of State, Rule of Darkness, and Bread and Circuses, all from Cornell.¿

Summary

Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the...

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Brantlinger
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2016
• EAN: 9780801493386
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-9338-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous