Dumbing down : essays on the strip mining of American culture / edited by Katharine Washburn and John F. Thornton ; introduction by John Simon.
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New York :
W.W. Norton,
©1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Education. The postmodern schoolhouse
- The question of our speech: the return to aural culture
- Writing down together
- The erosion of the social sciences
- The saving minutes
- Circling the squires
- Pt. 2. Arts & sciences. Last night at the planetarium
- Voodoo science
- I'll take my stand: a defense of popular culture
- The last taboo
- What to do about the arts
- Pt. 3. The media. "But first, a word from our sponsor": advertising and the carnivalization of culture
- Homo virtualis
- The facts of fiction and the fiction of facts
- pt. 4. Public life
- Egalitarianism and diversity
- Kitsch religion
- America's fantasy urbanism: the waxing of the mall and the waning of civility
- The trivialization of tragedy
- "I feel good to be a black male"
- Pt. 5. Private life. Cooking dumb, eating dumb
- What's the story?
- Does sex still exist?