Unpopular Culture
Subtitle: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s (Studies in Book and Print Culture)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: January 4, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802091338
Subjects: Comic book & cartoon art; Cultural studies; Sociology; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Comic books, strips, etc; Europe; History and criticism
Description: "Unpopular Culture addresses the transformation of the status of the comic book in Europe since 1990. Increasingly, comic book artists seek to render un-popular a traditionally degraded aspect of popular culture, transforming it through the adoption of values borrowed from the field of 'high art.' The first English-language book to explore these issues, Unpopular Culture represents a challenge to received histories of art and popular culture that downplay significant historical anomalies in favour of more conventional narratives. In tracing the efforts of a large number of artists to disrupt the hegemony of high culture, Bart Beaty raises important questions about cultural value and its place as an important structuring element in contemporary social processes."--BOOK JACKET.