This collection gathers Eco's main writings on mass culture published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers from the mid-50s to the late 1980s. Opening with an anti-Adornian survey of theories of mass culture, Eco goes on to explore such exotica as La Cicciolina, Charlie Brown, Orwell, Fellini, Italian independent radio and the "genius industry". Umberto Eco is a semiologist and medievalist, and is the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Faith in Fakes".
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This collection gathers Eco's main writings on mass culture published in a wide variety of journals and newspapers from the mid-50s to the late 1980s. Opening with an anti-Adornian survey of theories of mass culture, Eco goes on to explore such exotica as La Cicciolina, Charlie Brown, Orwell, Fellini, Italian independent radio and the "genius industry". Umberto Eco is a semiologist and medievalist, and is the author of "The Name of the Rose" and "Faith in Fakes".
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Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x1cm, vii, 227 pp., Series: Perspectives. Contents: Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed: Apocalyptic and Intergrated Intellectuals: Mass Communications and Theories of Mass Culture; The World of Charlie Brown; Reactions of the Author: Now (1974 and 1977); Orwell, or Concerning Visionary Power; The The Future of Literacy; Mass Media and the Limits of Communication: Political Language: The Use and Abuse of Rhetoric; Does the Audience have Bad Effects on Television? ; Event as "Mise en scène" and Life as Scene-setting; The Phantom of Neo-TV: The Debate on Fellini's "Ginger and Fred"; The Rise and Fall of Counter-Cultures: Does Counter-Culture Exist? ; The New Forms of Expression; On Chinese Comic Strips: Counter-Information and Alternative Information; Indenpendent Radio in Italy; Striking at the Heart of the State? ; In Search of Italian Genius: Phenomena of This Sort Must Also be Included in Any Panorama of Italian Design; A Dollar for a Deputy: La Ciccolina; For Grace Received; The Italian Genius Industry.
