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Power Misses - Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (Paperback, New)
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Mass culture: pro or con? From the time of Adorno and Horkheimer's
seminal essay on "the culture industry", cultural studies has stood
in the shadow of the Frankfurt School's critique of mass culture
and its 'model of popular vs. elite culture, whatever the merits of
either. Looking at culture as something people do rather than buy,
Power Misses challenges the prevailing wisdom in cultural studies
today. David James insists that popular resistance to domination by
the culture industry must intervene at the point of production
rather than consumption. In its most resolute instances, from the
poetry of William Blake to the British Miners' Campaign Tape
Project, alternative culture has fused with radical politics.
Authoritatively mapping the terrain of cultural resistance under
capitalism, James examines the material contradictions and the
utopian potentials articulated in John Berger's fiction, Dada, rock
music, the films of Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas, and the poetry of
punk. Following in the steps of Brecht and Benjamin, James explores
the myriad ways in which culture is saturated by the commodity
form, while at the same time giving rise to numerous forms of
popular resistance to the culture industry's dominance.
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