Description: Pristine NEW copy of the first American edition, 1994. RARE to find both first and new. An erudite and witty collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces which have not been translated into English before. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as apocalyptic and opposed to all mass culture, or as integrated intellectuals, so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it. Organized in four main parts, "Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed," "Mass Media and the Limits of Communication," "The Rise and Fall of Counter-Cultures," and "In Search of Italian Genius," Eco looks at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's Ginger and Fred, and the Italian genius industry.
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Book Title: Apocalypse Postponed : Essays by Umberto Eco
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Item Length: 9 in
Original Language: Italian
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 2000
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Literary Movement: Post-Modernism
Illustrator: Yes
Era: 1960-1980
Item Height: 0.6 in
Author: Umberto Eco
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Art & Culture, Politics & Society, Social Science, Semiotics
Topic: Comic Books, Commercial Art, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Entertainment, Film, History of Ideas, Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Media, Movies, Popular Culture, Popular Media, Society, Television, Media Studies, Essays, literacy
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Item Width: 6 in
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
