High-Pop
Making Culture into Popular Entertainment
1. Edition January 2002
248 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-22211-8
John Wiley & Sons
An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream culture.
List of Illustrations.
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
High-Pop: An Introduction: Jim Collins (University of Notre
Dame).
1. "Expecting Rain": Opera as Popular Culture? John Storey
(Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of
Sunderland).
2. Signature and Brand: John Frow (University of Edinburgh).
3. From Brahmin Julia to Working-Class Emeril: The Evolution of
Television Cooking: Toby Miller (Tisch School of Fine Arts,
NYU).
4. "Tan"talizing Others: Multicultural Anxiety and the New
Orientalism: Kim Middleton Meyer (University of Notre Dame,
Doctoral Candidate).
5. Class Rites in the Age of the Blockbuster: Alan Wallach
(College of William and Mary).
6. Museums and Department Stores: Close Encounters: Carol Duncan
(Ramapo College).
7. Which Shakespeare to Love? Film, Fidelity, and the
Performance of Literature: Tim Corrigan (Temple University).
8. No (Popular) Place Like Home? Jim Collins (University of
Notre Dame).
9. Style and the Perfection of Things: Celia Lury (Goldsmiths
College, University of London).
Index.
List of Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
High-Pop: An Introduction: Jim Collins (University of Notre
Dame).
1. "Expecting Rain": Opera as Popular Culture? John Storey
(Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of
Sunderland).
2. Signature and Brand: John Frow (University of Edinburgh).
3. From Brahmin Julia to Working-Class Emeril: The Evolution of
Television Cooking: Toby Miller (Tisch School of Fine Arts,
NYU).
4. "Tan"talizing Others: Multicultural Anxiety and the New
Orientalism: Kim Middleton Meyer (University of Notre Dame,
Doctoral Candidate).
5. Class Rites in the Age of the Blockbuster: Alan Wallach
(College of William and Mary).
6. Museums and Department Stores: Close Encounters: Carol Duncan
(Ramapo College).
7. Which Shakespeare to Love? Film, Fidelity, and the
Performance of Literature: Tim Corrigan (Temple University).
8. No (Popular) Place Like Home? Jim Collins (University of
Notre Dame).
9. Style and the Perfection of Things: Celia Lury (Goldsmiths
College, University of London).
Index.
"High-Pop is an important book, and a challenging one. Its wide-ranging examination of the integration of high culture into popular entertainment offers rich and provocative insights into the changing dynamics of taste, value, culture, and consumption. Just the kind of critical rethinking of earlier perspectives that cultural studies now badly needs." Tony Bennett, the Open University
Jim Collins is Associate Professor of Film, Television,
and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism (1989)
and Architectures of Excess (1995), and co-editor of Film
Theory Goes to the Movies (1993).
and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of
Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism (1989)
and Architectures of Excess (1995), and co-editor of Film
Theory Goes to the Movies (1993).
