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A history of popular culture : more of everything, faster and brighter / Raymond Betts, with Lyz Bly.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2013.Description: xi, 185 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415674362
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Popular culture in the early twentieth-century world -- Popular culture joins the war effort -- Reconfiguing time and space -- Picture this : a new world of images -- All the world's a stage : contemporary entertainment in its many forms -- Happily spaced out : the topography of pleasure and diversion -- The unintended outcomes -- Conclusion. Reconditioning the human condition.
Summary: This book explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War II: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. It considers the dominance of American entertainment media and habits of consumption, assessing adaptation and negative reactions to this influence.
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Popular culture in the early twentieth-century world -- Popular culture joins the war effort -- Reconfiguing time and space -- Picture this : a new world of images -- All the world's a stage : contemporary entertainment in its many forms -- Happily spaced out : the topography of pleasure and diversion -- The unintended outcomes -- Conclusion. Reconditioning the human condition.

This book explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War II: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. It considers the dominance of American entertainment media and habits of consumption, assessing adaptation and negative reactions to this influence.

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