Apocalypse postponed / Umberto Eco ; edited by Robert Lumley.

By:

Eco, Umberto

Contributor(s):

Lumley, Robert [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; London : British Film Institute, 1994.Description: 319 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:

0006548512 (pbk. )

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

IP 306 ECO 20

LOC classification:

HM101 .E28 1994

Contents:

Mass culture: apocalypse -- Mass media and limits of communication -- The rise and fall of counter-cultures -- In search of Italian Genius.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru	1st Floor	IP 306 ECO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		G15096

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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.

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.

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