Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.
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Within the past decade a wide range of cultural critics representing radically different ideological perspectives have pointed to the crisis within cultural life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decentered cultures, detective discourse, fragmentary audiences, intertextual arenas, cultural orchestration, discursive ideologies, detective texts, semiotic environments, intertextual frames, mass culture critique, semantic closure, spectator positioning, semantic differentiation, unitary culture, mais quand meme, detective fiction, reading formations, master system, individual discourses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White Glove, International Style, Grand Hotel, Chariots of Fire, Lord Peter, The Name of the Rose, Second Line, Umberto Eco, High Modernists, Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane, High Modernism, Raymond Williams, Red Harvest, Savage Place, Sherlock Holmes, The Uninvited, Tony Bennett, United States, Exile of Gardel, First Line, James's The Skull Beneath the Skin, Lew Archer, Max Headroom, Radio Gaga New!
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Within the past decade a wide range of cultural critics representing radically different ideological perspectives have pointed to the crisis within cultural life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decentered cultures, detective discourse, fragmentary audiences, intertextual arenas, cultural orchestration, discursive ideologies, detective texts, semiotic environments, intertextual frames, mass culture critique, semantic closure, spectator positioning, semantic differentiation, unitary culture, mais quand meme, detective fiction, reading formations, master system, individual discourses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
White Glove, International Style, Grand Hotel, Chariots of Fire, Lord Peter, The Name of the Rose, Second Line, Umberto Eco, High Modernists, Gaudy Night, Harriet Vane, High Modernism, Raymond Williams, Red Harvest, Savage Place, Sherlock Holmes, The Uninvited, Tony Bennett, United States, Exile of Gardel, First Line, James's The Skull Beneath the Skin, Lew Archer, Max Headroom, Radio Gaga New!
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- The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript by Umberto Eco on 5 pages
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler on 5 pages
- Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco on 4 pages
- The Fragmentary Class Structure (Modern Revivals in Sociology) by Kenneth Roberts on page 5, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Dialogic Imagination: Four Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Film Theory Goes to the Movies (AFI Film Readers) by Jim Collins on 5 pages
- The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Class by Andrew Pepper on 4 pages
- Contemporary American Crime Novel by Andrew Pepper on 4 pages
- Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Thomas Strychacz on 4 pages
- Virtual Geographies: Cyberpunk at the Intersection of the Postmodern and Science Fiction (Postmodern Studies) by Sabine Heuser on page 85, page 94, and Back Matter
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