High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy (Arts and Politics of the Everyday) - Softcover

Mellencamp, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253207355 ISBN 13: 9780253207357

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1992

Synopsis

... acute look at the state of contemporary culture... A humorous... book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." ―Back Stage / Shoot

Mellencamp’s ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work.... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate... " ―Art + Text

Written with wit and flair, High Anxiety is a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journey between Freud’s texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxious" mosaic of popular culture.

About this title

About the Author:

PATRICIA MELLENCAMP is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video, and Feminism and editor of Logics of Television and three American Film Institute monographs.

Review:

" ... acute look at the state of contemporary culture ... A humorous ... book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." - Back Stage / Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate ... " - Art + Text

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0253207355
• ISBN 13: 9780253207357
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 432