The popular arts : a critical reader / edited by Irving Deer, Harriet A. Deer.

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Main Author: Deer, Irving.
Other Authors: Deer, Harriet A. (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, [1967]
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Table of Contents:
  • Stone, steel, and jazz / by J.A. Kouwenhoven
  • Literature in an organization society / by W.H. Whyte, Jr
  • Our changing ideals, as seen on TV / by N. Podhoretz
  • Primitivism in The family of man / by J. Barzun
  • The "western": definition of the myth / by J. Williams
  • Reactors of the imagination / by R. Denney
  • The detective story as a historical source / by W.O. Aydelotte
  • The gangster as tragic hero / by R. Warshow
  • Pornography is not enough / by E. Larrabee
  • Kitsch / by G. Highet
  • The rebirth of the musical, from the Times literary supplement
  • From Children of Thoth / by R. Denney
  • History on the silver screen / by G. Highet
  • From The film / by A. Hunt
  • The witness point / by V. Young
  • Comedy's greatest era / by J. Agee
  • The twentieth-century best-seller / by P.N. Furbank
  • The aesthetics of the popular arts / by A. Kaplan
  • Additional questions for composition, research, and further discussion.