High Theory/Low Culture: Analyzing Popular Television and Film by Editor-Colin MacCabe - 1986-12

New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1986. BOOK: Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Analysing popular television and film. SYNOPSIS: Over the past twenty years much of the most interesting work in the humanities has focused on the study of popular culture. The traditional valuation of the arts in terms of an elite culture defined by a minority audience and an exclusive tradition has been challenged by a whole variety of work which has asserted the importance of the great popular forums of the twentieth century: film, television and recorded music. This work has developed alongside the other main new impetus in the humanities, an interest in critical theory and the foregrounding of problems of interpretation. Although these two areas' work have often overlapped they have yet to be brought into a truly productive relationship. The aim of the seminar in which this volume originated… Read More