Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (American Culture) - Softcover

Lipsitz, George

 
9780816618064: Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture (American Culture)
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ISBN 10: 0816618062 ISBN 13: 9780816618064
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2001

Synopsis

In "Time passages", George Lipsitz explores the complicated relationship in postwar America between historical memory and commercial culture, between the texts of popular culture and their contexts of creation and reception. Arguing that a "crisis of memory" lies at the heart of modern culture, he demonstrates how popular culture and history are linked in a selective (and paradoxical) process of remembering and forgetting. Popular television, music and film baffle those critics trained in traditional modes of aesthetic criticism. In Lipsitz's hands, however, the texts of popular culture prove to be sophisticated repositories of historical knowledge; in his words, the sideshow becomes the main event. "George Lipsitz is Associate Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota.".

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About the Author

George Lipsitz is professor of black studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Among his many books are Dangerous Crossroads and Footsteps in the Dark (Minnesota, 2007).

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816618062
ISBN 13 
9780816618064
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
323

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