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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture: Essays » (1)
Authors: John G. Cawelti
ISBN-13: 9780299196349, ISBN-10: 0299196348
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: 1
Author Biography: John G. Cawelti
John G. Cawelti is professor emeritus of English and humanities at the University of Kentucky. His many books include Apostles of the Self-Made Man; Adventure, Mystery, and Romance; Leon Forrest; and The Six-Gun Mystique Sequel.
Book Synopsis
This collection of 25 essays focuses on three themes: the theory of popular genres, the role of violence in American culture, and the literature of mystery. Using examples from well-known movies, television, literature, and music, Cawelti (emeritus, U. of Kentucky) shows how they reflect the evolving psychological, sociological, and political state of the nation. The essays were previously published in various journals between 1968 and 2003. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Table of Contents
| 1 | The concept of formula in the study of popular culture [1969] | 3 |
| 2 | Notes toward an aesthetic of popular culture [1972] | 13 |
| 3 | Beatles, Batman, and the new aesthetic [1968] | 26 |
| 4 | The writer as a celebrity : some aspects of American literature as popular culture [1977] | 46 |
| 5 | With the benefit of hindsight : popular culture criticism [1985] | 61 |
| 6 | Masculine myths and feminist revisions : some thoughts on the future of popular genres [1994] | 79 |
| 7 | The question of popular genres revisited [1997] | 95 |
| 8 | The internationalization of popular genres [1997] | 112 |
| 9 | Cowboys and canons : humanistic education and popular culture [1998] | 120 |
| 10 | Formulas and genre reconsidered once again [2002-3] | 130 |
| 11 | God's country, Las Vegas, and the gunfighter : differing visions of the West [1970] | 141 |
| 12 | Myths of violence in American popular culture [1975] | 152 |
| 13 | The gunfighter and the hard-boiled Dick : some ruminations on American fantasies of heroism [1976] | 173 |
| 14 | Chinatown and generic transformation in recent American films [1979] | 193 |
| 15 | Violence and apple pie : reflections on literature, culture, and violence in America [2000] | 210 |
| 16 | Symbols of ethnicity and popular culture [1990] | 219 |
| 17 | Literature, race, and ethnicity in America [1992] | 234 |
| 18 | Popular culture/multiculturalism [1996] | 252 |
| 19 | Faulkner and the detective story's double plot [1991] | 265 |
| 20 | Canonization, modern literature, and the detective story [1997] | 276 |
| 21 | Detecting the detective : some theories of mystery [2001] | 288 |
| 22 | Take that, you Commie rat! : the Cold War's imaginary spies [1998] | 312 |
| 23 | The literature of mystery : some reconsiderations [1999] | 328 |
| 24 | Stuart Kaminsky : place and irony in the mystery story [2002] | 357 |
| 25 | Cornpone detection? : notes on Southern mystery writing [2003] | 364 |
| Afterword : mystiquing the western; or, how I started doing popular culture [2002] | 371 |
Subjects
Fiction Books & Literature
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism
Entertainment Books on Film Film History & Criticism
Entertainment Media Mass Media & Crime
Entertainment Television Television Broadcasting - Social Aspects
Nonfiction Social Sciences Media & Communications
Nonfiction Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous
Science & Nature Social Sciences Media & Communications
Science & Nature Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous
Social Sciences Media & Communications Mass Media & Crime
Social Sciences General & Miscellaneous Popular Culture Studies
Nonfiction Entertainment Books on Film
Nonfiction Entertainment Media
Nonfiction Entertainment Television
Literary Criticism General & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismEntertainment
Books on Film Film History & CriticismEntertainment
Media Mass Media & CrimeEntertainment
Television Television Broadcasting - Social AspectsNonfiction
Social Sciences Media & CommunicationsNonfiction
Social Sciences General & MiscellaneousScience & Nature
Social Sciences Media & CommunicationsScience & Nature
Social Sciences General & MiscellaneousSocial Sciences
Media & Communications Mass Media & CrimeSocial Sciences
General & Miscellaneous Popular Culture StudiesNonfiction
Entertainment Books on FilmNonfiction
Entertainment MediaNonfiction
Entertainment Television
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