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High anxiety : catastrophe, scandal, age & comedy
- Title
- High anxiety : catastrophe, scandal, age & comedy / Patricia Mellencamp.
- Author
- Mellencamp, Patricia.
- Publication
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1992]
- ©1992
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 414 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Framed by a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, High Anxiety is a narrative journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture--Cover.
- Series Statement
- Arts and politics of the everyday
- Uniform Title
- Arts and politics of the everyday.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-408) and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Packaging the Difference: Franchise Culture ("The Search for signs of intelligent life in the universe" ; High anxiety ; A Method to the Madness) -- I. Differentiation (Passionate Consumption ; "Betcha can't eat just one" ; Death and the market) -- II. Obsession (not just a perfume) ("Rat Man" ; Money and Culture) -- III. Deregulation (Econologic: "The Luster Capital" ; TV and FCC ; The Global Village or the New World Information Order?) -- IV. Representing Difference(s) ("Egad, it's Plaid" ; Not a Pretty Picture ; Critical Differences ; Anita Hill) -- Part II: Beyond the Pleasure Principle of Television: TV time, history and catastrophe -- V. Shocking thoughts ("Jump Behavior": Rene Thom ; "From Libido to Anxiety": Sigmund Freud) -- VI. Disastrous Events (Before the fall, after the fall: Baby Jessica and Black Monday ; Death, shock, art: Kennedy, Walter Benjamin, and Eternal Frame ; Sublime Visions: The Challenger Explosion ; Disaster Studies ; Seeing is believing: "The Great Quake" ; Aerial Views: Operation Desert Storm ; The Machine that killed bad people ; Nuclear Disavowal ; Catasrophists) -- Part III: Inquiring minds want to know: Gossip and Scandal (Secret pleasures ; Face-isms: Women through time ; Trivial pursuits: Harping at Harper's) -- VII. Gossip Theory (Scholars, tourists, ecouteurs ; Losing it: Roseanne and Oprah ; Taking things literally: Patricia Spacks ; A cry in the dark) -- VIII. Gossip law -- IX. Gossip and the Market (Women and the National Enquirer ; Idle Chatter: Syndication and Tabloid Talk ; Loose talk: Oprah, Geraldo, and Phil ; Any woman's blues ; Shady Relatives: Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker) -- X. Theorizing Affect (It's a sin ; A Sexual detour to Twin Peaks ; Fall from Grave and Narrative Absolution ; Keeping Secrets) -- Part IV: Calculating Difference: The Body and Age (The Cultured body ; The Lover ; Not a Jealous Bone ; The disciplined body) -- XI. Obsessive Subjects: Renifleurs (women's bodies) -- Aging bodies (The Young and the Restless ; The Life and Loves of a She-Devil ; Murder, She Wrote) -- Part V. Regime of Domiculture: Women and Situation Comedy -- XIII. Gracie -- XIV. Lucy -- XV. Jokes and their relation to TV (Roseanne ; Who's the Boss? ; Murphy Brown) -- Part VI. Countercultures: Women's Economies (XVI. Women's spaces/Women's Work ; XVII. Family Therapy: Revising the Counterculture -- XVIII. The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life -- Epilogue: the Condensed Version
- ISBN
- 0253337445
- 9780253337443
- 0253207355
- 9780253207357
- LCCN
- 91046255
- OCLC
- ocm25050464
- 25050464
- SCSB-1964303
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library