Unpopular Culture - Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s

Klappentext Unpopular Culture is a strong book that achieves a very difficult synthesis of a well-researched and wide-ranging geographical overview with a solid, theoretically based argument - Pierre Bourdieu's model of the cultural field enables Beaty to perform a precise and nuanced analysis of aesthetic and economic changes in European comics over time while surveying the work of many of the most notable creators in the field. The writing is both sophisticated and lucid, and the book makes a significant contribution to the critical literature on comics.-Joseph Witek Zusammenfassung In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture! Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes.

Product details

• Authors: Bart Beaty
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2007
• EAN: 9780802091338
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9133-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Book and Print Culture; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Cult; Studies in Book and Print Culture
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries