"Most of the essays ... were delivered at Indiana University during 1988 and 1989, in a series of lectures entitled 'The Theory and interpretation of mass culture'"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : six artistic cultures / James Naremore and Patrick Brantlinger -- History and literary history : the case of mass culture / Richard Ohmann -- Cinema, Americanism, the robot / Peter Wollen -- On Kiri Te Kanawa, Judy Garland, and the culture industry / Geoffrey Nowell-Smith -- Hollywood in the home : TV and the end of the studio system / Christopher Anderson -- Popular discrimination / John Fiske -- Digressions at the cinema : commodification and reception in mass culture / Barbara Klinger -- Baudrillard's America (and ours?) : image, virus, catastrophe / Stephen Watt -- Undoing feminism in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles / Devon Hodges and Janice L. Doane -- Tube tied : reproductive politics and Moonlighting / Lynne Joyrich -- Appropriating like Krazy : from pop art to meta-pop / Jim Collins -- The avant-garde finds Andy Hardy / Robert B. Ray -- The end of mass culture / Michael Denning.

All Ages.