Patricia Mellencamp
High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy
Patricia Mellencamp
High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy
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Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxiousmosaic of popular culture.
Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxiousmosaic of popular culture.
Produktdetails
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- Arts and Politics of the Every
- Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: September 1992
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm
- Gewicht: 608g
- ISBN-13: 9780253207357
- ISBN-10: 0253207355
- Artikelnr.: 22238781
- Arts and Politics of the Every
- Verlag: INDIANA UNIV PR
- Seitenzahl: 432
- Erscheinungstermin: September 1992
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 23mm x 16mm x 3mm
- Gewicht: 608g
- ISBN-13: 9780253207357
- ISBN-10: 0253207355
- Artikelnr.: 22238781
Patricia Mellencamp
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture
"The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
High Anxiety
A Method to the Madness
I. Differentiation
Passionate Consumption
"Betcha Can't Eat Just One"
Death and the Market
II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)
"Rat Man"
Money and Culture
III. Deregulation
Econologic: "The Luster of Capital"
TV and the FCC
The Global Village or the New World Information Order?
IV. Representing Difference(s)
"Egad, It's Plaid"
Not a Pretty Picture
Critical Differences
Anita Hill
Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and
Catastrophe
V. Shocking Thoughts
"Jump Behavior": Rene Thom
"From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud
VI. Disastrous Events
Before the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday
Death, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame
Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion
Diaster Studies
Seeing Is Believing: "The Great Quake"
Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm
The Machine That Killed Bad People
Nuclear Disavowal
Catastrophists
Part III: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and Scandal
Secret Pleasures
Face-ism: "Women through Time"
Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper's
VII. Gossip Theory
Scholars, Tourist, Ecouteurs
Losing It: Roseanne and Oprah
Taking Things Literately: Patricia Spacks
A Cry in the Dark
VIII. Gossip Law
IX. Gossip and the Market
Women and the National Enquirer
Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk
Loose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil
Any Woman's Blues
Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
X. Theorizing Affect
It's a sin
A Sexual Detour to Twin Peaks
Fall from Grace and Narrative Absolution
Keeping Secrets
Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age
The Cultured Body
The Lover
Not a Jealous Bone
The Disciplined Body
XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs
Women's Bodies
XII. Aging Bodies
The Young and the Restless
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Murder, She Wrote
Part V: Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy
XIII. Gracie
XIV. Lucy
XV. Jokes and Their Relation to TV
Roseanne
Who's the Boss?
Murphy Brown
Part VI: Countercultures: Women's Economies
XVI. Women's Spaces/Women's Work
XVII. Family Therapy
Revising the Counterculture
XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life
Epilogue: The Condensed Version
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture
"The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
High Anxiety
A Method to the Madness
I. Differentiation
Passionate Consumption
"Betcha Can't Eat Just One"
Death and the Market
II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)
"Rat Man"
Money and Culture
III. Deregulation
Econologic: "The Luster of Capital"
TV and the FCC
The Global Village or the New World Information Order?
IV. Representing Difference(s)
"Egad, It's Plaid"
Not a Pretty Picture
Critical Differences
Anita Hill
Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and
Catastrophe
V. Shocking Thoughts
"Jump Behavior": Rene Thom
"From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud
VI. Disastrous Events
Before the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday
Death, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame
Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion
Diaster Studies
Seeing Is Believing: "The Great Quake"
Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm
The Machine That Killed Bad People
Nuclear Disavowal
Catastrophists
Part III: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and Scandal
Secret Pleasures
Face-ism: "Women through Time"
Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper's
VII. Gossip Theory
Scholars, Tourist, Ecouteurs
Losing It: Roseanne and Oprah
Taking Things Literately: Patricia Spacks
A Cry in the Dark
VIII. Gossip Law
IX. Gossip and the Market
Women and the National Enquirer
Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk
Loose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil
Any Woman's Blues
Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
X. Theorizing Affect
It's a sin
A Sexual Detour to Twin Peaks
Fall from Grace and Narrative Absolution
Keeping Secrets
Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age
The Cultured Body
The Lover
Not a Jealous Bone
The Disciplined Body
XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs
Women's Bodies
XII. Aging Bodies
The Young and the Restless
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Murder, She Wrote
Part V: Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy
XIII. Gracie
XIV. Lucy
XV. Jokes and Their Relation to TV
Roseanne
Who's the Boss?
Murphy Brown
Part VI: Countercultures: Women's Economies
XVI. Women's Spaces/Women's Work
XVII. Family Therapy
Revising the Counterculture
XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life
Epilogue: The Condensed Version
Notes
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture
"The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
High Anxiety
A Method to the Madness
I. Differentiation
Passionate Consumption
"Betcha Can't Eat Just One"
Death and the Market
II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)
"Rat Man"
Money and Culture
III. Deregulation
Econologic: "The Luster of Capital"
TV and the FCC
The Global Village or the New World Information Order?
IV. Representing Difference(s)
"Egad, It's Plaid"
Not a Pretty Picture
Critical Differences
Anita Hill
Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and
Catastrophe
V. Shocking Thoughts
"Jump Behavior": Rene Thom
"From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud
VI. Disastrous Events
Before the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday
Death, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame
Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion
Diaster Studies
Seeing Is Believing: "The Great Quake"
Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm
The Machine That Killed Bad People
Nuclear Disavowal
Catastrophists
Part III: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and Scandal
Secret Pleasures
Face-ism: "Women through Time"
Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper's
VII. Gossip Theory
Scholars, Tourist, Ecouteurs
Losing It: Roseanne and Oprah
Taking Things Literately: Patricia Spacks
A Cry in the Dark
VIII. Gossip Law
IX. Gossip and the Market
Women and the National Enquirer
Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk
Loose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil
Any Woman's Blues
Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
X. Theorizing Affect
It's a sin
A Sexual Detour to Twin Peaks
Fall from Grace and Narrative Absolution
Keeping Secrets
Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age
The Cultured Body
The Lover
Not a Jealous Bone
The Disciplined Body
XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs
Women's Bodies
XII. Aging Bodies
The Young and the Restless
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Murder, She Wrote
Part V: Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy
XIII. Gracie
XIV. Lucy
XV. Jokes and Their Relation to TV
Roseanne
Who's the Boss?
Murphy Brown
Part VI: Countercultures: Women's Economies
XVI. Women's Spaces/Women's Work
XVII. Family Therapy
Revising the Counterculture
XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life
Epilogue: The Condensed Version
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture
"The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe"
High Anxiety
A Method to the Madness
I. Differentiation
Passionate Consumption
"Betcha Can't Eat Just One"
Death and the Market
II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)
"Rat Man"
Money and Culture
III. Deregulation
Econologic: "The Luster of Capital"
TV and the FCC
The Global Village or the New World Information Order?
IV. Representing Difference(s)
"Egad, It's Plaid"
Not a Pretty Picture
Critical Differences
Anita Hill
Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and
Catastrophe
V. Shocking Thoughts
"Jump Behavior": Rene Thom
"From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud
VI. Disastrous Events
Before the Fall, After the Fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday
Death, Shock, Art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame
Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion
Diaster Studies
Seeing Is Believing: "The Great Quake"
Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm
The Machine That Killed Bad People
Nuclear Disavowal
Catastrophists
Part III: Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Gossip and Scandal
Secret Pleasures
Face-ism: "Women through Time"
Trival Pursuits: Harping at Harper's
VII. Gossip Theory
Scholars, Tourist, Ecouteurs
Losing It: Roseanne and Oprah
Taking Things Literately: Patricia Spacks
A Cry in the Dark
VIII. Gossip Law
IX. Gossip and the Market
Women and the National Enquirer
Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk
Loose Talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil
Any Woman's Blues
Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
X. Theorizing Affect
It's a sin
A Sexual Detour to Twin Peaks
Fall from Grace and Narrative Absolution
Keeping Secrets
Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age
The Cultured Body
The Lover
Not a Jealous Bone
The Disciplined Body
XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs
Women's Bodies
XII. Aging Bodies
The Young and the Restless
The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Murder, She Wrote
Part V: Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy
XIII. Gracie
XIV. Lucy
XV. Jokes and Their Relation to TV
Roseanne
Who's the Boss?
Murphy Brown
Part VI: Countercultures: Women's Economies
XVI. Women's Spaces/Women's Work
XVII. Family Therapy
Revising the Counterculture
XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life
Epilogue: The Condensed Version
Notes
Index