Memes and the Future of Pop Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789004398283)

Pop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s--an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This coalition gave pop culture its identity, allowing it to thrive and form alliances with artistic and literary movements. But pop culture may have run its course with the rise of meme culture. This publication revisits the social, psychic, and aesthetic roots of pop culture, suggesting that meme culture has fragmented its historical flow, thus threatening to bring about its demise.

Author: Marcel Danesi
ISBN-10: 9004398287
ISBN-13: 9789004398283
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40d