A philosophy of mass art / Noël Carroll.

By: Carroll, Noël, 1947- [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998Copyright date: ©1998Description: xii, 425 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0198742371 (paperback) Subject(s): Mass media and the arts | Popular cultureLOC classification: NX180.M3 C37 1998Subject: We live in a world surrounded by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music--both broadcast and recorded--surround us everywhere. Yet despite the fact that for the majority of people mass art supplies the primary source of aesthetic experience, the area has been neglected entirely by analytical philosophers of art. In this pathbreaking new book, a leading philosopher of art provides an accessible and wide-ranging look at the topic. Noel Carroll shows why philosophers have previously resisted and/or misunderstood mass art and he develops frameworks for understanding the relation of mass art to the emotions, morality, and ideology. He also discusses the major theories of such pivotal figures as Collingwood, Adorno, Benjamin, McCluhan, and Fiske. Mixing conceptual analysis with many vivid examples, Carroll forges the first significant attempt at a philosophy of mass art, concluding that there are strong grounds for approaching mass art in the same fashion as high art. https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Mass-Art-No%C3%ABl-Carroll/dp/0198742371/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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"Dedicated to Arthur Danto"

Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 419-425).

We live in a world surrounded by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music--both broadcast and recorded--surround us everywhere. Yet despite the fact that for the majority of people mass art supplies the primary source of aesthetic experience, the area has been neglected entirely by analytical philosophers of art.

In this pathbreaking new book, a leading philosopher of art provides an accessible and wide-ranging look at the topic. Noel Carroll shows why philosophers have previously resisted and/or misunderstood mass art and he develops frameworks for understanding the relation of mass art to the emotions, morality, and ideology. He also discusses the major theories of such pivotal figures as Collingwood, Adorno, Benjamin, McCluhan, and Fiske. Mixing conceptual analysis with many vivid examples, Carroll forges the first significant attempt at a philosophy of mass art, concluding that there are strong grounds for approaching mass art in the same fashion as high art.

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Mass-Art-No%C3%ABl-Carroll/dp/0198742371/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=