Jim Collins

Bring on the Books for Everybody

How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Considers the proliferation of popular literary culture in the U.S.--from Oprah's book club to Miramax film adaptations to chick lit.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345886
• ISBN-10: 0822345889
• Artikelnr.: 28035495

Autorenporträt

Jim Collins is Professor of Film and Television, and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age and Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism; the editor of High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment; and a co-editor of Film Theory Goes to the Movies.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Digital Books, Beach Chairs, and Popular Literary Culture 1
Part I. The New Infrastructure of Reading: Sites, Delivery Systems,
Authorities
1. The End of Civilization (or at Least Civilized Reading) as You Know It:
Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Self-Cultivation 39
2. Book Clubs, Book Lust, and National Librarians: Literary Connoisseurship
as Popular Entertainment 80
Part II. The Literary Experience in Visual Cultures
3. The Movie Was Better: The Rise of the Cine-Literary 117
4. "Miramaxing": Beyond Mere Adaptation 141
Part III. Popular Literary Fiction
5. Sex and the Post-Literary City 183
6. The Devoutly Literary Bestseller 221
Bibliography 267
Index 271