CULTURE AS HISTORY
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, History, Modern, 20th Century, Americas, United States
| Author: | warren susman | ISBN: | 9780307826145 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Pantheon | Language: | English |
| Author: | warren susman |
| ISBN: | 9780307826145 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | October 17, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Pantheon |
| Language: | English |
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.
Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the social, political, and cultural face of America in this century. Probing a rich panoply of images from the mass media and advertising, testing prevalent intellectual and economic theories, linking the revolutions in communications and technology to the rise of a new pantheon of popular heroes. Susman documents and analyzes the process through which the older, Puritan-republican, producer-capitalist culture has given way to the leisure-oriented, consumer society we now inhabit: the culture of abundance.
