TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eco,Umberto
AU  - Lumley,Robert
TI  - Apocalypse postponed
SN  - 0006548512 (pbk. )
AV  - HM101 .E28 1994
U1  - IP 306 ECO 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Bloomington, London
PB  - Indiana University Press, British Film Institute
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Italy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mass culture: apocalypse --
Mass media and limits of communication --
The rise and fall of counter-cultures --
In search of Italian Genius
N2  - Apocalypse Postponed is the anguished portrait of Western culture on the brink of self-destruction, by one of the world's foremost writers.

With consummate ease, Umberto Eco provides simultaneously both a perfect attack on and an apology for mass culture. Exploring such exotica as La Cicciolina, Charlie Brown, George Orwell, Fellini, Chinese and American comics, as well as appraising illiteracy, the state of the counterculture and his own reaction to the media's consumption of his work, he exposes contemporary mass culture both as mankind's, nemesis and as its salvation
ER  -