Roll Over Adorno
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Roll Over Adorno

Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media

  1. 284 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Roll Over Adorno

Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Audiovisual Media

About this book

Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.

What happens when Theodor Adorno, the champion of high, classical artists such as Beethoven, comes into contact with the music of Chuck Berry, the de facto king of rock 'n' roll? In a series of readings and meditations, Robert Miklitsch investigates the postmodern nexus between elite and popular culture as it occurs in the audiovisual fields of film, music, and television-ranging from Gershwin to gangsta rap, Tarantino to Tongues Untied, Tony Soprano to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Miklitsch argues that the aim of critical theory in the new century will be to describe and explain these commodities in ever greater phenomenological detail without losing touch with those evaluative criteria that have historically sustained both Kulturkritik and classical aesthetics.

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Table of contents

  1. Roll Over Adorno
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Script
  6. Introduction: Critical Theory, Popular Culture,Audiovisual Media
  7. 1.Rock ‘n’ Theory: Cultural Studies, Autobiography,and the Death of Rock
  8. 2. Roll Over Adorno: Beethoven, Chuck Berry, and Popular Music in the Age of MP3
  9. 3. The Suture Scenario: Audiovisuality and Post-Screen Theory
  10. 4. Audiophilia: Audiovisual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema in Jackie Brown
  11. 5. Gen-X TV: Political-Libidinal Structuresof Feeling in Melrose Place
  12. 6. Shot/Countershot: Sexuality, Psychoanalysis, andPostmodern Style in The Sopranos