Description: Apocalypse Postponed : Essays, Paperback by Eco, Umberto, ISBN 0253024196, ISBN-13 9780253024190, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Topic: Popular Culture, Literary, Political
Item Height: 0.7 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, Fiction, Social Science
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Umberto Eco
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
