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Bring on the Books for Everybody How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture.

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Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, Jim (auth)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Duke University Press 2010.
Subjects:
Film theory & criticism.
Literature: history & criticism.
Popular culture.
Popular culture and literature > United States.
Popular culture > United States.
Book clubs (Bookselling) > United States.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) > United States.
Culture populaire et littérature > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Clubs du livre (Librairie) > États-Unis.
Clubs de lecture > États-Unis.
Book clubs (Bookselling)
Book clubs (Discussion groups)
Popular culture
Popular culture and literature
United States
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Books & Reading
Film
History & Criticism
Literary Criticism
Performing Arts
Popular Culture
Social Science
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The end of civilization (or at least civilized reading) as you know it : Barnes and Noble, Amazon.com, and self-cultivation
  • Book clubs, book lust, and national librarians : literary connoisseurship as popular entertainment
  • The movie was better : the rise of the cine-literary
  • "Miramaxing" : beyond mere adaptation
  • Sex and the post-literary city
  • The devoutly literary bestseller.