Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture
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Book Overview
The classic work on collective memory and popular culture in the United States.
Probes the complicated relationship between postwar America between historical memory and commercial culture--popular television, music, and film.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0816638810
ISBN13:9780816638819
Release Date:September 2001
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:328 Pages
Weight:0.86 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
Customer Reviews
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Time Passages is a great read...!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I hope you don't take too much stock in the prior "review." Lipsitz's Time Passages is a great introduction to thinking critically about different forms of popular culture (TV, film, music, and so on). Lipsitz links a diverse range of pop cultural forms with the larger worlds around us. That takes a lot of doing, especially since we take for granted most of what we consume passively. Most of us figure that entertainment doesn't hold any significant meaning beyond our own individual enjoyment. Lipsitz reminds us that what we often take for granted is almost never taken for granted by corporate elites who spend a lot of time and money trying to figure out how to create loyalties, tastes and styles emptied of substantive content. The book also reminds us that pop culture is a place where ordinary folks have also tried to say important things about the world as they see it and sometimes as how they'd like to see it.
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