[Download free pdf] Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America
·•●- James B. Twitchell ·•●-
| #3027021 in Books | 1992-07 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.50 x1.00l, | File Name: 0231078307 | 306 pages
||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| And Your Point Is . . .?|By Parker Benchley|Given the provocative title, I expected to find a full-blown critique of the state of our current culture and just how it got that way. Was I ever wrong: the book was overblown and there was no critique. Nor was there a defense of today's culture. While the book was good at explaining today's culture and its history (particularly the|From School Library Journal|YA-- Are the three great purveyors of mass culture in the U. S.--book publishing, motion pictures, and television--creating a culture that glorifies the vulgar and the mediocre at the expense of worthwhile qualities in American life?
This study examines how the changes in publishing, movie making and television programming since the 1960s have affected taste, particularly what is considered vulgar. Show businesss, the industry of American culture, wreaks the most havoc on American taste by pandering to what most paying customers want to see. Twitchell's expose comes not to celebrate popular or "carnival" culture, as much as to answer questions about it: is vulgarity the result of repression or of fr...
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