Collins Bring on the Books for Everybody

How Literary Culture Became Popular Culture
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9197-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 287 Seiten

A look at how technology and literary, visual, and consumer cultures have combined over the past two decades to transform a once solitary, print-based experience into an exuberantly social activity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collins, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Digital Books, Beach Chairs, and Popular Literary Culture 1

Part I. The New Infrastructure of Reading: Sites, Delivery Systems, Authorities

1. The End of Civilization (or at Least Civilized Reading) as You Know It: Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Self-Cultivation 39

2. Book Clubs, Book Lust, and National Librarians: Literary Connoisseurship as Popular Entertainment 80

Part II. The Literary Experience in Visual Cultures

3. The Movie Was Better: The Rise of the Cine-Literary 117

4. "Miramaxing": Beyond Mere Adaptation 141

Part III. Popular Literary Fiction

5. Sex and the Post-Literary City 183

6. The Devoutly Literary Bestseller 221

Bibliography 267

Index 271

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Collins is Professor of Film and Television, and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Information Age and Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-Modernism; the editor of High-Pop: Making Culture into Popular Entertainment; and a co-editor of Film Theory Goes to the Movies.