Beautiful things in popular culture /
From Batman to motor bikes, pop stars to internet pornography, this book examines the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects. It aims to dispel the myth that consumers are unaware of quality, mindlessly consuming whatever is put in fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | From Batman to motor bikes, pop stars to internet pornography, this book examines the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects. It aims to dispel the myth that consumers are unaware of quality, mindlessly consuming whatever is put in front of them. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470690994 0470690992 9781405178556 1405178558 128085104X 9781280851049 9781405131902 140513190X |