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Book Synopsis Eucharist and American Culture by : Dennis Chester Smolarski
Download or read book Eucharist and American Culture written by Dennis Chester Smolarski and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the prayer for unity described in chapter 17 of the Gospel of John, Jesus prays that "all may be one." This theme recurs in the New Testament and in writings throughout Christian history. In contrast, U.S. society is characterized by "individualism" as evidenced by various recent scholarly publications and surveys. Americans are less likely now to participate in social groups than they were a couple of decades ago. As a result, some aspects of good liturgy, such as common posture or communal singing, are increasingly perceived as "counter-cultural." Eucharist and American Culture is a unique resource that considers the impact of American individualism upon the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist. Short, insightful chapters offer key sociological points and liturgical understanding as well as summarize recent academic works and research results of Robert Bellah, Robert Putnam, and Jean Twenge. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal is consulted regarding the celebration of the liturgy. Suitable for use as an undergraduate religious studies resource, this book will also find a place in courses in religion and culture and sociology of religion, as well as in seminary formation programs and programs for parish liturgical ministers. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis American Media and Mass Culture by : Donald Lazere
Download or read book American Media and Mass Culture written by Donald Lazere and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the conservatism that has been ascendant since the seventies in American politics and cultural criticism. Donald Lazere brings together selections from nearly forty of the most prominent marxist, feminist, and other leftist critics of American mass culture--from a dozen academic disciplines and fields of media activism. The collection will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, and general readers." -- Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture by : David Blanke
Download or read book Cecil B. DeMille, Classical Hollywood, and Modern American Mass Culture written by David Blanke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the long and profitable career of Cecil B. DeMille to track the evolution of Classical Hollywood and its influence on emerging mass commercial culture in the US. DeMille’s success rested on how well his films presumed a broad consensus in the American public—expressed through consumer hedonism, faith, and an “exceptional” national history—which merged seamlessly with the efficient production methods developed by the largest integrated studios. DeMille’s sudden mid-career shift away from spectator perversity to corporate propagandist permanently tarnished the director’s historical standing among scholars, yet should not overshadow the profound links between his success and the rise and fall of mid-century mass culture.
Book Synopsis The Republic of Mass Culture by : James L. Baughman
Download or read book The Republic of Mass Culture written by James L. Baughman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully drawing on interdisciplinary communication research, The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries.
Book Synopsis Catholics and American Culture by : Mark Stephen Massa
Download or read book Catholics and American Culture written by Mark Stephen Massa and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrayal of a crucial turning point for the Catholic Church in America--when it was finally accepted into the U.S. cultural mainstream.
Book Synopsis Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism by : Thomas F. Strychacz
Download or read book Modernism, Mass Culture and Professionalism written by Thomas F. Strychacz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of four modernist writers and their relationship to their critics and era.
Book Synopsis The Genesis of Mass Culture by : J. Springhall
Download or read book The Genesis of Mass Culture written by J. Springhall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-04-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough survey of the origins and development of the major distinct American commercial entertainments that emerged between over the course of the 19th century and into the 20th, including P.T. Barnum_s American Museum, freak show, and circus, as well as blackface minstrelry, Buffalo Bill_s Wild West Show, and vaudeville.
Book Synopsis Modernity and Mass Culture by : James Naremore
Download or read book Modernity and Mass Culture written by James Naremore and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twelve essays in Modernity and Mass Culture provide a broad and captivating overview of what has come to be known as culture studies." --Texas Journal This is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. U.S. and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture as a whole is affected by the transition from the modern to the postmodern era.
Book Synopsis Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture by : Bart Beaty
Download or read book Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture written by Bart Beaty and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a re-examination of the critic whose Congressional testimony sparked the Comics Code. Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects on youth and society. When The Seduction of the Innocent was published in 1954, Wertham (1895-1981) became instantly known as an authority on child psychology. Although he had published several books before Seduction, its sharp criticism of popular culture in general--and comic books in particular--made it a touchstone for debate about issues of censorship, child protection, and freedom of speech. This book reinterprets his intellectual legacy and challenges notions about his alleged cultural conservatism. Drawing upon Wertham's published works as well as his unpublished private papers, correspondence, and notes, Beaty reveals a man whose opinions, life, and career offer more subtlety of thought than previously assumed. In particular, the book examines Wertham's change of heart in the 1970s, when he began to claim that comics could be a positive influence in American society.
Book Synopsis An American Emmaus by : Regis A. Duffy OFM
Download or read book An American Emmaus written by Regis A. Duffy OFM and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating study of the impact of culture on the Catholic Church in the U.S., and the importance of the Church to the culture. "Emmaus," writes the author, "is not only the name of a town in the gospel of Luke. It is also a state of mind." He portrays the American Emmaus as an ongoing conversion walk of twentieth-century Christians who attempt to recognize the crucified and risen Christ within the complex and pluralistic cultures of the United States. He focuses on the connections between being Catholic and American at this point in history, challenges the Church to give witness to the gospel message, and shows how it is through liturgy (the gathered American community) that the Church once again takes the walk to Emmaus. Here are insights not only for Catholics but for Christians of every denomination.
Book Synopsis Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System by : John Rieder
Download or read book Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System written by John Rieder and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System, John Rieder asks literary scholars to consider what shape literary history takes when based on a historical, rather than formalist, genre theory. Rieder starts from the premise that science fiction and the other genres usually associated with so-called genre fiction comprise a system of genres entirely distinct from the pre-existing classical and academic genre system that includes the epic, tragedy, comedy, satire, romance, the lyric, and so on. He proposes that the field of literary production and the project of literary studies cannot be adequately conceptualized without taking into account the tensions between these two genre systems that arise from their different modes of production, distribution, and reception. Although the careful reading of individual texts forms an important part of this study, the systemic approach offered by Science Fiction and the Mass Cultural Genre System provides a fundamental challenge to literary methodologies that foreground individual innovation.
Book Synopsis Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction by : K. Kartchner
Download or read book Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction written by K. Kartchner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-05 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.
Book Synopsis Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan by : Amy Bliss Marshall
Download or read book Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan written by Amy Bliss Marshall and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan provides a detailed yet approachable analysis of the mechanisms central to the birth of mass culture in Japan by tracing the creation, production, and circulation of two critically important family magazines: Kingu (King) and Ie no hikari (Light of the Home). These magazines served to embed new instruments of mass communication and socialization within Japanese society and created mechanisms to facilitate the dissemination of hegemonic forms of discourse in the first half of the twentieth century. The amazing success of Kingu and Ie no hikari during the 1920s and 1930s not only established and normalized participation in a Japanese mass national audience - a community which had previously not existed - but also facilitated the rise of Japanese mass consumer culture in the postwar years. Amy Bliss Marshall argues that the postwar mass national consumer in Japan is foreshadowed by the mass national audience created by family magazines of the interwar era. This book narrates the development of such publications, one explicitly capitalist and one outwardly agrarian, based on missions with an overarching desire to create a mass audience. Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan highlights the importance of the seemingly innocuous acts of mass leisure consumption of magazines and the goods advertised therein, aiding our understanding of the creation and direction of a new form of social participation and understanding - an essential part of not only the culture but also the politics of the interwar period.
Book Synopsis Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany by : K. Führer
Download or read book Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany written by K. Führer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.
Book Synopsis Literature and Mass Culture by : Leo Lowenthal
Download or read book Literature and Mass Culture written by Leo Lowenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first volume of the collected writings of sociologist Leo Lowenthal contains his classic theoretical and historical writings on the relationship of art to mass culture. This book series presents Lowenthal's contributions to a theory of the role of communication in modern society. This volume lays out the basis for a theory of mass culture. Lowenthal demonstrates that the juxtaposition of a "low"mass culture and a "high"esoteric culture did not originate in contemporary industrial, bourgeois society but can be traced back to the Middle Ages and antiquity.
Book Synopsis EBOOK: Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture by : BARAN, STANLEY
Download or read book EBOOK: Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture written by BARAN, STANLEY and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBOOK: Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture
Book Synopsis Mass Media Unleashed by : Carl R. Ramey
Download or read book Mass Media Unleashed written by Carl R. Ramey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the transformation of government policy since 1980 that has lead to changes in electronic media. The author argues that Washington policymakers must scrap the old regulatory system and write a new policy script designed to guarantee a broadcast service that is free, and dedicated to serving Americans as citizens, not just as consumers.
