Bread & Circuses
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English
ISBN
978-0-8014-1598-2
Bread & Circuses
Contents
Preface
1. lntroduction: The Two Classicisms
2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate
3. "The Opium of the People"
4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals
5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence
6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus
7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment
8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism
9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society
Index
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