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An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organized in four main parts, ""Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed"", ""Mass Media and the Limits of Communication"", ""The Rise and Fall of Counter-Cultures"", and ""In Search of Italian Genius"", Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's Ginger and Fred, and the Italian genius industry.
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Umberto Eco was born in 1932 in Alessandria, Italy. He is a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, a philosopher, historian, literary critic and aesthetician. He is the author of the international bestselling novels The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before, as well as three collections of popular essays, Travels in Hyperreality, Misreadings and How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays. Mr. Eco lives in Milan.
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- PublisherBritish Film Institute
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0851704182
- ISBN 13 9780851704180
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
- EditorLumley Robert
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Book Description Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 600 g; VIII, 230 pages, last three pages blank, indexed. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of photographs, includes some diagrams etc. Edited by Robert Lumley. An erudite and witty collection of Umberto eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterisations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to almost culture, less integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organised into four main parts "mass culture: Apocalypse postponed," "mass media and the limits of communication," "the rise and fall of counterculture's," and "in search of Italian genius," Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, where the counterculture is exist, Fellini's Ginger and Fred and the Italian genius industry." -- rear fold over blurb Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: philosophy; Sociology & Culture. ISBN: 0851704182. ISBN/EAN: 9780851704180. Inventory No: 0219520. Seller Inventory # 0219520
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