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This book explores key questions about the role of intellectuals in popular culture. It also investigates the tensions and oppositions between entertainment, in

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger,

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, play

Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and tel

The mass production and diversification of media have accelerated the development of popular culture. This has started a new trend in consumerism of desiring ne