Mass Culture and Everyday Life

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday lives in recent years: from Hillary's hairdo to tampons, exercise fads and fashion trends; from soaps to opera to rythmn and blues; from horror movies to the interrelation of cats, pigs and mothers in Babe. This volume includes ground-breaking essays on: the boom of talk radio and talk TV; shopping as cinematic spectacle; and how "everyday life" in the university community has become a key battleground in America's "culture wars." The direct, accessible, and refreshingly personal work speak not only to an academic audience but to a wide general readership.

Gibian Peter

Part 1 Where Did We Come From? Where Are We Going?; Chapter 1 The TABLOIDStory, Jean Franco; Chapter 2 On/Against Mass Culture Theories; Chapter 3 Whose Cultural Studies?, Renata Rosaldo; Part 2 It's All Academic; Chapter 4 Disciplining the University; Chapter 5 Arts of the Contact Zone, Mary Louise Pratt; Chapter 6 Professors, Dana Polan; Chapter 7 The Age of the World Target, Rey Chow; Part 3 Mass Media I; Chapter 8 Another World?, Tania Modleski; Chapter 9 Eros and Syphilization, Dana Polan; Part 4 Mass Media II; Chapter 10 Newspeak Meets Newstalk, Peter Gibian; Chapter 11 Hello, You're on the Air, Jean Franco; Chapter 12 No, She Really Loves Eggs, Mary Louise Pratt; Part 5 Bodily Functions; Chapter 13 In the Belly of the Beast, Maria Damon; Chapter 14 National Security Leak; Chapter 15 Some Babe, Tania Modleski; Chapter 16 Angelo logy, Maria Damon; Chapter 17 Jazzercise, Mary Louise Pratt; Part 6 Everyday Life Environments; Chapter 18 Breaking Silence, or an Old Wives' Tale, Tania Modleski; Chapter 19 Who's the Boss?, Gene Santoro; Chapter 20 The Art of Being Off-Center, Peter Gibian;