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9781859840368

Gargantua Manufactured Mass Culture

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  • ISBN13:

    9781859840368

  • ISBN10:

    1859840361

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1996-06-17
  • Publisher: Verso

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Summary

'Stallabrass is not an anti-popularist, but a critic of the way the cultural studies industry has driven the study of mass culture into a banal relativism.' John Robert, Variant

Author Biography

Julian Stallabrass is Reader in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His other books include Art Incorporated: The Story of Contemporary Art, Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture, and Internet Art: The Online Clash of Culture and Commerce.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
The Education of Gargantuap. 1
Sixty Billion Sunsetsp. 13
Empowering Technologyp. 40
Just Gamingp. 84
Automobile Aestheticsp. 113
Advertising the Invisiblep. 135
The Duty to Consumep. 151
Trashp. 171
Looking-Glass TVp. 189
Capital to Capitalp. 214
Bibliographyp. 233
Indexp. 241
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