Roll over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media

by Miklitsch, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780791467343
• ISBN10: 0791467341
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-06
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Script	xvii
INTRODUCTION: CRITICAL THEORY, POPULAR CULTURE, AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA	1	(22)
Popular Music	3	(5)
Sound Film	8	(7)
Television	15	(8)
PART 1. POPULAR MUSIC: HI-LO FIDELITY	23	(44)
1. ROCK 'N' THEORY: CULTURAL STUDIES, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, AND THE DEATH OF ROCK	25	(18)
A Side: The Birth of Rock, or Memory Train	25	(4)
B Side: Rock in Theory	29	(11)
The Culture of Rock	30	(3)
Rock, Rap, and Riot Grrrls	33	(2)
World Musics: After Rock Imperialism	35	(1)
Production of Culture	36	(2)
Forced Choice: Britney or Avril?	38	(2)
My Generation	40	(3)
2. ROLL OVER ADORNO: BEETHOVEN, CHUCK BERRY, AND POPULAR MUSIC IN THE AGE OF MP3	43	(18)
Mass Culture, Ersatz Kantianism	44	(2)
From Beethoven to Fascism	46	(1)
Amerika: Beethoven or Bikinis	47	(2)
Radio Days	49	(3)
"Roll Over Beethoven"	52	(2)
Magic Spell and the Two Spheres of Music	54	(3)
MP3	57	(1)
Fantasia	58	(3)
REPRISE: BEETHOVEN'S HAIR	61	(6)
PART 2. SOUND FILM: SCREEN THEORY AND AUDIOVISUALITY	67	(66)
3. THE SUTURE SCENARIO: AUDIOVISUALITY AND POST-SCREEN THEORY	69	(22)
Theory: The Suture Scenario	70	(2)
Post-Screen Theory: Suture-as-Desuturing	72	(1)
Audiovisuality in Tongues Untied and Set It Off	73	(18)
Illustration A: Tongues Untied	74	(5)
Illustration B: Set It Off	79	(12)
4. AUDIOPHILIA: AUDIOVISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA IN JACKIE BROWN	91	(30)
Cinephilia	92	(2)
Scopophilia	94	(2)
From Scopophilia to Audiophilia: The Gaze que Race	96	(2)
Audiophilia: Auditing Jackie Brown	98	(1)
"Across 110th Street": Overture	99	(2)
"Street Life": Jackie as Femme Noire	101	(6)
"Across 110th Street": Denouement	107	(4)
Audiophilia Reconsidered: "Asking for It"	111	(6)
Counterpoint: Post-Soul Music or Pre-Gangsta Rap?	117	(4)
REPRISE: ALEX'S "LOVELY LUDWIG VAN" AND MARTY MCFLY'S WHITE ROCK MINSTREL SHOW	121	(12)
PART 3. TV: TELEVISION, TELEPHILIA, TELEVISUALITY	133	(64)
5. GEN-X TV: POLITICAL-LIBIDINAL STRUCTURES OF FEELING IN MELROSE PLACE	135	(18)
Preview	136	(2)
After the Reagan Dynasty: "Help Me, Rhonda"	138	(4)
From Race to Sex-Gender: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang	142	(2)
The Romance of Capital: Fox, Female Address, and Postfeminism	144	(3)
Melrose Space: The Fashion Mode	147	(2)
Adcult: The Commercial Supertext	149	(2)
Review	151	(2)
6. SHOT/COUNTERSHOT: SEXUALITY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND POSTMODERN STYLE IN THE SOPRANOS	153	(30)
Shot: The Godfather	154	(10)
Citationality: The Gangster as Serio-Comic Hero	154	(3)
"I'm a Man": Crossing Cultures	157	(2)
Psycho-Gangster TV: Seriality and Self-Reflexivity	159	(1)
À la Recherche du temps perdu	160	(2)
Primal Scene: Capicola as Proustian "Tea Cookie"	162	(2)
Countershot: Case Study	164	(15)
Black and Blue: Puzo's Women	166	(1)
Repetition Compulsion: From The Godfather to The Sopranos	167	(1)
Beyond the University	168	(4)
Post-Mortem: Bad Love	172	(1)
D-I-S-R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Tele-Psychoanalytic Metatext	173	(2)
Analysis Interminable	175	(4)
Martini Shot: "Hall Hath No Fury"	179	(4)
REPRISE: TONY SOPRANO, MEET BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER	183	(14)
Notes	197	(36)
Bibliography	233	(20)
Index	253