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xii, 425 pages ; 24 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Philosophical resistance to mass art : The majority tradition. Introduction -- The massification argument -- The passivity argument -- The formula argument -- The freedom argument, the susceptibility argument and the conditioning argument -- Concluding remarks : A diagnosis of philosophy's resistance to mass art -- pt. 2. Philosophical celebrations of mass art : The minority tradition. Introduction -- Walter Benjamin and the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Marshall McLuhan and the electronic future -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 3. The nature of mass art. Introduction -- The elimination theory of mass art -- Defining mass art -- The ontology of mass art -- David Novitz's theory of mass art -- John Fiske's rejection of the concept of mass art -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 4. Mass art and the emotions. Introduction -- Plato versus the cognitive theory of the emotions -- Criterial prefocusing : An alternative to identification -- Ramifications for research -- Fiction and the emotions -- But what about mass art? -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 5. Mass art and morality. Introduction -- Consequentialism, propositionalism, and identificationism -- Clarificationism -- Simulation, or back to identification? -- Concluding remarks -- pt. 6. Mass art and ideology. Introduction -- A theory of ideology -- Ideology and rhetoric -- Concluding remarks. |
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Mass media and the arts.
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Popular culture.
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Mass media and the arts. (OCoLC)fst01011374
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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| ISBN |
0198711298 (hard ; alk. paper) |
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9780198711292 (hard ; alk. paper) |
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0198742371 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780198742371 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
9780198742371 |
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