[BOOK][B] High anxiety: Catastrophe, scandal, age, and comedy
P Mellencamp - 1992 - books.google.com
P Mellencamp
1992•books.google.com"... 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 US television, a narrative
journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary …
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 US television, a narrative
journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary …
"... 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 US 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.
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