Patricia Mellencamp - Arts and Politics of the Everyday: High Anxiety : Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy book DOC, FB2
9780253207357 English 0253207355 "... 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., "... acute look at the state of contemporary culture... A humorous... book, ityields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." Back Stage /Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and thecommonplace is the great strength of this work.... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution tothe cultural studies debate... " Art + Text Written with wit andflair, High Anxiety is a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journeybetween 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 subjectswhich form this "anxious" mosaic of popular culture., ..."" 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 + TextWritten 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., �I find this to be an extraordinary and original piece of work. . . . Mellencamp moves through bodies of theory and bodies of texts in popular (and so-called high) culture demonstrating, in her readings, a common range of preoccupations. . . . [She] offers readings of the terrain of contemporary everyday culture (and, at times, the �others� of everyday culture).� �Mimi WhiteOperation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Murder, She Wrote, Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil: these and other subjects come together to form an �anxious� mosaic in Patricia Mellencamp�s High Anxiety.Framed by a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, High Anxiety is a narrative journey between Freud�s texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Mellencamp�s adventure in cultural criticism is personal, impressionistic, mimicking TV �flow,� and yet substantiates arguments with precision and flair.
9780253207357 English 0253207355 "... 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., "... acute look at the state of contemporary culture... A humorous... book, ityields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." Back Stage /Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and thecommonplace is the great strength of this work.... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution tothe cultural studies debate... " Art + Text Written with wit andflair, High Anxiety is a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journeybetween 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 subjectswhich form this "anxious" mosaic of popular culture., ..."" 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 + TextWritten 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., �I find this to be an extraordinary and original piece of work. . . . Mellencamp moves through bodies of theory and bodies of texts in popular (and so-called high) culture demonstrating, in her readings, a common range of preoccupations. . . . [She] offers readings of the terrain of contemporary everyday culture (and, at times, the �others� of everyday culture).� �Mimi WhiteOperation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Murder, She Wrote, Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil: these and other subjects come together to form an �anxious� mosaic in Patricia Mellencamp�s High Anxiety.Framed by a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, High Anxiety is a narrative journey between Freud�s texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Mellencamp�s adventure in cultural criticism is personal, impressionistic, mimicking TV �flow,� and yet substantiates arguments with precision and flair.