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High Theory by Dr. Mikita Brottman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is High Theory about?

In High Theory/Low Culture , Mikita Brottman uses the tools of "high" cultural theory to examine many areas of today's popular culture, including style magazines, sports, shopping, tabloid newspapers, horror movies and pornography. In doing so, she not only demonstrates the practical use of "high" theory as it relates to our everyday world, but she also investigates the kinds of "low" culture that are regularly dismissed by academic scholars. Through a close examination of these cultural forms, Brottman reveals how the kinds of popular culture that we usually take for granted are, in fact, far more complex and sophisticated than is normally assumed. Review "In this brilliant book, Mikita Brottman penetrates the surface of pop culture texts, from magazines and tabloids, to horror movies and erotic flicks, to provide a truly discerning theory as to why people respond so emotionally to them. Unlike the bland, trendy, pseudo-sophisticated critiques of pop culture by many academic pundits that now saturate the bookstands, Brottman shows that popular forms of entertainment are emotionally powerful because of their capacity for being infinitely meaningful at different levels of psychic

Who reads High Theory?

Author

Dr. Mikita Brottman

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781281363695

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Criticism, History