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American Affect in the Postmodern Era

A Primer

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A Primer

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How is terrorism transformed into media entertainment? What is the connection between affirmative action and narcissism? Why has pathos become an endangered-perhaps an extinct-species in the contemporary American psyche? In American Affect in the Postmodern Era: A Primer, Steven Carter addresses these and other questions that have helped to define American popular culture since the nineteen-sixties.

Cover painting: Kyle Margiotta, Baja, 1999. Oil on canvas.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword by Arthur J. Spring
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Author's Note to the Reader
Chapter 4 Loomings
Chapter 5 Technology and Time
Chapter 6 Narcissism I
Chapter 7 Narcissism II
Chapter 8 TV, Terror, Entertainment
Chapter 9 Intermission: The Ethos of Cool vs. the Ethos of Chill
Chapter 10 Newspapers, or: The Grief of Tisha Rae Garza
Chapter 11 Play
Chapter 12 Teddy Bears, Balloons, Ba Ya
Chapter 13 Pathos
Chapter 14 Miss Lonelyhearts Redux

Product details

Published Aug 29 2005
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 142
ISBN 9780761832508
Imprint Hamilton Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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