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Informationen zum Autor Patricia Mellencamp Klappentext Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxiousmosaic of popular culture. Zusammenfassung Framed by a critique of the temporality of US television, this title offers a narrative journey between Freuds texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture "The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe" High Anxiety A Method to the Madness I. Differentiation Passionate Consumption "Betcha Can't Eat Just One" Death and the Market II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume) "Rat Man" Money and Culture III. Deregulation Econologic: "The Luster of Capital" TV and the FCC The Global Village or the New World Information Order? IV. Representing Difference(s) "Egad, It's Plaid" Not a Pretty Picture Critical Differences Anita Hill Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and Catastrophe V. Shocking Thoughts "Jump Behavior": Rene Thom "From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud VI. Disastrous Events Before the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday Death, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion Diaster Studies Seeing Is Believing: "The Great Quake" Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm The Machine That Killed Bad People Nuclear Disavowal Catastrophists Part III: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and Scandal Secret Pleasures Face-ism: "Women through Time" Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper's VII. Gossip Theory Scholars, Tourist, Ecouteurs Losing It: Roseanne and Oprah Taking Things Literately: Patricia Spacks A Cry in the Dark VIII. Gossip Law IX. Gossip and the Market Women and the National Enquirer Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk Loose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil Any Woman's Blues Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker X. Theorizing Affect It's a sin A Sexual Detour to Twin Peaks Fall from Grace and Narrative Absolution Keeping Secrets Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age The Cultured Body The Lover Not a Jealous Bone The Disciplined Body XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs Women's Bodies XII. Aging Bodies The Young and the Restless The Life and Loves of a She-Devil Murder, She Wrote Part V: Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy XIII. Gracie XIV. Lucy XV. Jokes and Their Relation to TV Roseanne Who's the Boss? Murphy Brown Part VI: Countercultures: Women's Economies XVI. Women's Spaces/Women's Work XVII. Family Therapy Revising the Counterculture XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life Epilogue: The Condensed Version Notes Index ...
