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Author:

Horowitz, Daniel, 1938-

Title:

Consuming pleasures : intellectuals and popular culture in the postwar world / Daniel Horowitz.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Pennsylvania Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 491 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Popular culture--Economic aspects--United States--20th century.
Popular culture--Economic aspects--Europe--20th century.
Consumption (Economics)--United States--Psychological aspects--20th century.
Consumption (Economics)--Europe--Psychological aspects--20th century.
Intellectuals--United States--History--History--20th century.
Intellectuals--Europe--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-466) and index.

Contents:

For and against the American grain -- Lost in translation -- Crossing borders -- Reluctant fascination -- Literary ethnography of working-class life -- Pop art from Britain to America -- From workers and literature to youth and popular culture -- Class and consumption -- Sexuality and a new sensibility -- Learning from consumer culture.

Series:

The arts and intellectual life in modern America

ISBN:

0812243951 (alk. paper)
9780812243956 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)748290790

LCCN:

2011034159

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)