Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture

By David E. James

Book Overview

Mass culture: pro or con? From the time of Adorno and Horkheimer's seminal essay on the culture industry, cultural studies has stood in the shadow of the Frankfurt School's critique of mass culture and its model of popular versus elite culture, whatever the merits of either. Looking at culture as something people do rather than buy, this book challenges the prevailing wisdom in cultural studies today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859848060
• ISBN13: 9781859848067
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"