Discrimination and popular culture

By:

Thompson, Denys. (ed.)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Harmondsworth; Penguin Books.; 1973Edition: 2nd edDescription: 239 pISBN:

014020640X

Subject(s):

Culture

DDC classification:

306.4 Dis 2nd ed.

Summary: By what standards should we judge the mass media? Are we willing to accept low standards from mass-audience material? Has repetition dulled us into accepting less than the best most of the time? In Discrimination and Popular Culture eight educationists comment on the ways in which our everyday lives are bombarded by advertising, pop music, television, radio, magazines and newspapers. Each contributor examines one aspect of the impact of mass communications on present-day moral and cultural standards. Together the essays show how it would be possible to combine entertainment with enlightenment and how education can help to bring about higher standards of production and appreciation. Discrimination and Popular Culture, which was first published in 1964 and has been selling steadily ever since, has been extensively rewritten for this second edition, and includes two new essays on 'Townscape' and 'Film'.

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By what standards should we judge the mass media? Are we willing to accept low standards from mass-audience material? Has repetition dulled us into accepting less than the best most of the time?

In Discrimination and Popular Culture eight educationists comment on the ways in which our everyday lives are bombarded by advertising, pop music, television, radio, magazines and newspapers. Each contributor examines one aspect of the impact of mass communications on present-day moral and cultural standards. Together the essays show how it would be possible to combine entertainment with enlightenment and how education can help to bring about higher standards of production and appreciation.

Discrimination and Popular Culture, which was first published in 1964 and has been selling steadily ever since, has been extensively rewritten for this second edition, and includes two new essays on 'Townscape' and 'Film'.

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