Consuming pleasures : intellectuals and popular culture in the postwar world / Daniel Horowitz.

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or...

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Main Author: Horowitz, Daniel, 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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505 0 0 |t For and against the American grain --  |t Lost in translation --  |t Crossing borders --  |t Reluctant fascination --  |t Literary ethnography of working-class life --  |t Pop art from Britain to America --  |t From workers and literature to youth and popular culture --  |t Class and consumption --  |t Sexuality and a new sensibility --  |t Learning from consumer culture --  |g Conclusion:  |t The world of pleasure and symbolic exchange. 
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