TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brantlinger, Patrick
AB  - <p>Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the theorists of the Frankfurt Institute, down to Marshall McLuhan and Daniel Bell. Brantlinger considers the many versions of negative classicism and shows how the belief in the historical inevitability of social decay.<p>
ID  - OAPEN ID: 19886
KW  - decadence
KW  - historical inevitability
KW  - crowd psychology
KW  - Sigmund Freud
KW  - popular culture
KW  - mass culture
KW  - classicism
KW  - mass media
KW  - social decay
KW  - Marshall McLuhan
L1  - http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/25064054/9781501707643.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/42443
PB  - Cornell University Press
PY  - 1983
SN  - 9780801493386
TI  - Bread and Circuses : Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay
ER  - 
