Classics in Communication and Mass Culture Series
You Don't Say: Modern American Inhibitions
1st Edition
By Benjamin DeMott
March 31, 2002
In this era of political correctness, it is often impossible to say things as one would like. Indeed, certain ways of feeling and talking that were once acceptable are now, in effect, forbidden. Of course, taboos extend further than speech. Social and sexual inhibitions are also evident. Benjamin...
Desexualization in American Life
1st Edition
By Charles Winick
January 30, 1994
Originally published as The New People, this classic volume examines the great changes in popular culture that unfolded in the 1960s with major steps toward political, racial, gender, and social empowerment. The popular culture of the time expressed a series of themes that have become, if not more ...
The Public Arts
1st Edition
By Gilbert Seldes
January 30, 1994
First published in 1956 and then again in 1994. Seldes can be viewed as a pioneer of popularising and giving value to popular culture in his various publications since 1924. The Public Arts first published in 1956 starts with a letter to Jimmy Durante and Edward R. Murrow in which Seldes suggests ...