Author: DENYS THOMPSON (EDITOR)
Title: Discrimination and Popular Culture
Description: Harmondsworth, Penguin (Pelican). 1966, Reprint. Paperback. Book, Discrimination in the sense of the discriminating reading, not racial or sexual discrimination. First published 1964. Chapters on Advertising, by Frank Whitehead, Radio & Television by Philip Abrams, The Press by Graham Martin, Film by Albert Hunt, Magazines by David Holbrook, Recorded Music - Donald Hughes, and Design by Michael Farr. "a guide to the saccharine world. of mass produced media.. is a squalid mediocrity the highest common factor of popular culture, the best we can expect?" Edges and 4 pages bit brown, covers bit marked, worn on corners. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Keywords: Sociology, Dumbing Down, Advertising, Television, Music, 1960s, Sixties, Social History, Media, Press, Magazines, Design, Cinema, Pop, Rock, Music Business, Stereotypes Politics, Economics, Social Studies Philosophy, Theology, Religion


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