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1 Leisure Pursuits: Why We Should Care
1 Michael Cashman, quoted in Tom Geoghegan, “It Started with a Kiss,” BBC News, June 26, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7475394.stm.
2 George Orwell, “Boys’ Weeklies and Frank Richards’s Reply,” The Complete George Orwell, www.george-orwell.org/Boys’_Weeklies_and_Frank_Richards’s_Reply/0.html.
3 Graham Greene, quoted in Grå Borup Nielsen, Collected Essays (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000), p. 59.
4 George Carlin, interview by Philip H. Farber, Paradigm Shift, http://users.bestweb.net/~kali93/carlin.htm.
5 Pablo Picasso, “Pablo Picasso Famous Quotes,” Pablo Picasso, www.pablopicasso.org/quotes.jsp.
6 Will Galgey, quoted in Randeep Ramesh, “Britain Becomes Nation of Borrowers Spending Wildly on ‘Experiences,’ ” The Guardian, April 8, 2010, www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/08/social-trends-ons-spending.
7 Paul Schrader, “Beyond the Silver Screen,” The Guardian, June 18, 2009, www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/jun/19/paul-schrader-reality-tv-big-brother.
8 “Rolling Stone’s Reasons to Get Excited About Hi Fi,” Stereophile, May 16, 2010, www.stereophile.com/content/rolling-stones-reasons-get-excited-about-hi-fi-1.
9 John Storey, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture, 4th ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), p. 3.
10 Alexander McQueen, quoted in Andrew Bolton and Harold Koda, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011).
11 Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride: Folklore of Industrial Man (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967), p. 115.
12 Jules Feiffer, “For the True Temper of a Nation, Turn to Its Comics,” Kingston Gleaner, January 23, 1966, p. 5.
13 Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (New York: Picador, 1965), pp. xv-xvi.
14 Robert Prechter, “Popular Culture and the Stock Market,” August 1985, p. 5, www.socionomics.net/PDF/popular_culture.pdf.
15 Personal email to author, July 13, 2012.
2 Popular Culture: Defining the Term
1 Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983), p. 87.
2 Matthew Arnold, “Sweetness and Light,” Culture and Anarchy, 3rd ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1882), sec. 7, www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Arnold-Culture-Anarchy.html.
3 Gilbert Seldes, The Seven Lively Arts (New York: Harper, 1924), p. 3.
4 Quoteland.com, accessed December 4, 2012, www.quoteland.com/author/Mar shall-McLuhan-Quotes/295/.
5 Margalit Fox, “Ray Browne, 87, Founder of Pop-Culture Studies, Dies,” New York Times, October 27, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/education/28browne.html.
3 Working It Out: Some Biblical Parameters
1 Percy Bysshe Shelley, letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, December 20, 1818.
2 Percy Bysshe Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry,” 1821, Poetry Foundation, www.poetryf...
Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- Leisure Pursuits
- Popular Culture
- Working It Out
- Cinematic Art
- Journalism
- Celebrity Culture
- Fashion
- Ever-Greater Thrills
- Comedy
- Advertising
- Technology
- Photography
- TV and Movies
- What Should I Do?
- Notes
- Name Index
- Author Q&A with Steve Turner
- About the Author
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