{"product_id":"2026200013602-secondhand-mass-culture-the-popular-arts-in-america","title":"Mass Culture: The Popular Arts In America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of art, commerce, and democracy, Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America assembles a formidable chorus of mid-twentieth-century intellectuals to interrogate what happens to culture when it is manufactured for the millions. This landmark anthology brings together over forty contributors — from T.W. Adorno and Marshall McLuhan to Irving Howe and Clement Greenberg — to dissect the rise of television, film, advertising, comic strips, and popular music as defining forces of modern American life, presenting a panoramic and often contentious portrait of a society reshaping itself through mass-produced entertainment.\n\nThe collection stands as one of the most significant cultural documents of the postwar era, capturing the fierce debate between those who mourned the levelling of artistic standards and those who saw democratic possibility in popular forms. Editors Bernard Rosenberg and David Manning White curate these arguments with surgical precision, allowing competing ideologies to clash and illuminate one another, revealing the deep anxieties and aspirations of a nation at the height of its cultural confidence. Decades after its first publication, the questions it raises — about taste, power, and the fate of the individual imagination in a media-saturated world — remain startlingly unresolved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203391201499,"sku":"2026200013602-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5b2a5f4d-b02f-4b5d-9cd5-e9d11f55c986.png?v=1788148327","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013602-secondhand-mass-culture-the-popular-arts-in-america","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}