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High Anxiety – Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy

Autor Patricia Mellencamp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 aug 1992
ÒI find this to be an extraordinary and original piece of work. . . . Mellencamp moves through bodies of theory and bodies of texts in popular (and so-called high) culture demonstrating, in her readings, a common range of preoccupations. . . . [She] offers readings of the terrain of contemporary everyday culture (and, at times, the ÔothersÕ of everyday culture).Ó ÑMimi WhiteOperation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Murder, She Wrote, Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil: these and other subjects come together to form an ÒanxiousÓ mosaic in Patricia MellencampÕs High Anxiety.Framed by a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, High Anxiety is a narrative journey between FreudÕs texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. MellencampÕs adventure in cultural criticism is personal, impressionistic, mimicking TV Òflow,Ó and yet substantiates arguments with precision and flair.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253207357
ISBN-10: 0253207355
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture
ÒThe Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the UniverseÓ
High Anxiety
A Method to the Madness
I. Differentiation
Passionate Consumption
ÒBetcha CanÕt Eat Just OneÓ
Death and the Market
II. Obsession (Not Just a Perfume)
ÒRat ManÓ
Money and Culture
III. Deregulation
Econologic: ÒThe Luster of CapitalÓ
TV and the FCC
The Global Village or the New World Information Order?
IV. Representing Difference(s)
ÒEgad, ItÕs PlaidÓ
Not a Pretty Picture
Critical Differences
Anita Hill
Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV Time, History, and Catastrophe
V. Shocking Thoughts
ÒJump BehaviorÓ: Rene Thom
ÒFrom Libido to AnxietyÓ: 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: ÒThe Great QuakeÓ
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: ÒWomen through TimeÓ
Trival Pursuits: Harping at HarperÕs
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 WomanÕs Blues
Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
X. Theorizing Affect
ItÕs 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
WomenÕs 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
WhoÕs the Boss?
Murphy Brown
Part VI: Countercultures: WomenÕs Economies
XVI. WomenÕs Spaces/WomenÕs Work
XVII. Family Therapy
Revising the Counterculture
XVIII. The Seach for Signs of Intelligent Life
Epilogue: The Condensed Version
Notes
Index

Recenzii

" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." - Back Stage / Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work. . . . High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate . . . " - Art + Text

" ... acute look at the state of contemporary culture ... A humorous ... book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." - Back Stage / Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate ... " - Art + Text

Notă biografică

Patricia Mellencamp