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High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy (Arts & Politics of the Everyday): Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy (Arts & Politics of the Everyday)
Patricia Mellencamp
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Paperback.
" . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." —Back Stage / Shoot
"Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work. . . . High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate . . . " —Art + Text
Written with wit and flair, High Anxiety is a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253207357
SKU
V9780253207357
Shipping Time
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About Patricia Mellencamp
PATRICIA MELLENCAMP is Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the author of Indiscretions: Avant-garde Film, Video, and Feminism and editor of Logics of Television and three American Film Institute monographs.
Reviews for High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy (Arts & Politics of the Everyday): Catastrophe, Scandal, Age and Comedy (Arts & Politics of the Everyday)
" ... acute look at the state of contemporary culture ... A humorous ... book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." - Back Stage / Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work... High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate ... ... Read more