Bread and Circuses

<p>Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzs...

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מחבר ראשי: Brantlinger, Patrick
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יצא לאור: Cornell University Press 2021
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description <p>Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay.<p>
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-424432022-01-31T23:43:12Z Bread and Circuses Brantlinger, Patrick DJK1-77 decadence historical inevitability crowd psychology Sigmund Freud popular culture mass culture classicism mass media social decay Marshall McLuhan <p>Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay.<p> 2021-02-11T09:17:55Z 2021-02-11T09:17:55Z 2016-10-26 08:56:43 1983 book 19886 9780801493386 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42443 eng application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/25064054/9781501707643.pdf http://www.cornellopen.org/9781501707643/bread-and-circuses/ http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/25064054/9781501707643.pdf Cornell University Press 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e 9780801493386 312 open access
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