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Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media
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Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media Hardcover - 2006

by Robert Miklitsch


From the publisher

What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In a series of readings and meditations, Robert Miklitsch investigates the postmodern nexus between elite and popular culture as it occurs in the audiovisual fields of film, music, and television--ranging from Gershwin to gangsta rap, Tarantino to Tongues Untied, Tony Soprano to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miklitsch argues that the aim of critical theory in the new century will be to describe and explain these commodities in ever greater phenomenological detail without losing touch with those evaluative criteria that have historically sustained both Kulturkritik and classical aesthetics.

Details

  • Title Roll Over Adorno: Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media
  • Author Robert Miklitsch
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 2006-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780791467336 / 0791467333
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.32 x 0.92 in (22.96 x 16.05 x 2.34 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Culture in motion pictures, Popular culture - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005015254
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.23

About the author

Robert Miklitsch is Associate Professor of Critical Theory at Ohio University. He is the author of From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity Fetishism," also published by SUNY Press.