10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASS CULT»
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mass cult in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mass cult and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Interviews with Dwight Macdonald
Did you coin the words "mass- cult" and "mid-cult"? DM: I coined those words and
even "popular culture," I think. I used it in my initial essay on popular culture in the
first issue of Politics. Well, actually, [Marshall] McLuhan was using the term ...
2
Cult Film Stardom: Offbeat Attractions and Processes of ...
... sociological frameworks, through to its more pejorative definition from the
1960s onwards as it became associated with controversial niche organizations (
coincidently occurring at the same time as Morin conceives of stardom as a mass
cult) ...
Kate Egan, Sarah Thomas, 2012
But what exactly makes this different from phenomenally suc— cessful popular
movies like Star I/Vars or E. T., which might more accurately be described as
examples of “mass cult”? Such movies perfectly fit Harold Wilensky's definition of
...
Mathijs, Ernest, Mendik, Xavier, 2007
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The
Cult Film Experience: Beyond All Reason
Butwhat exactly makes thisdifferent from phenomenally successfulpopular
movies like Star Wars or E.T., which might more accurately be describedas
examples of “mass cult”? Such movies perfectly fit Harold Wilensky's definition of
mass ...
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Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream
... movies like Star Wars, Lynch inspired a cult audience—one that grew larger
than the typical smaller cult following of televised science fiction programs. As
Grimes described, Lynch had “developed what might be called a mass cult
following.
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Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American ...
It was this latter and relatively obscure reference that gave rise to the first
American reference to a mass cult suicide, which appeared in a 1955 mystery
story by Edward D. Hoch. Hoch's "Village of the Dead" tells of a bizarre cult
formed in a ...
Philip Jenkins Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies Pennsylvania State University, 2000
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Understanding Toscanini: A Social History of American ...
... "midcult" by the late Dwight Macdonald. In a landmark 1960 essay, "Mass- cult
and Midcult,"4 Macdonald, stigmatizing both, wrote of midcult that it has "the
essential qualities of masscult [but] decently covers them with a cultural figleaf," ...
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization: ...
He understands that a mass cult requires visual and sensual stimulation, and
offers the religious ritual of sacrifice: "The deepest happiness of man lies in the
fact that he will be sacrificed and the highest art of command consists in the
capacity ...
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Worshipping the Great Moderniser: King Chulalongkorn, Patron ...
The image of King Chulalongkorn that emerges from these elite products may
explain the veneration for King Chulalongkorn. These efforts, however, are
insufficient to explain how this veneration turned into a mass cult in the last
decade of the ...
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From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow ...
... the character could no longer function as a mass cult figure because viewers
would no longer be able to convince themselves that they were part of a
privileged audience.23 Cohen revealed an understanding of the particular
conditions of ...
John Cline, Robert G. Weiner, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASS CULT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mass cult is used in the context of the following news items.
Society DVD Review
They often had elements which sat uneasily with a larger viewership but gained mass cult following.You will know the director from his more ... «Front Row Reviews, Jun 15»
Festival preview: Reel Big Fish at Slam Dunk North
... and bands such as Reel Big Fish continue to enjoy a mass cult following across many age ranges. But what is it about this genre that appeals ... «Yorkshire Evening Post, May 15»
To Woody Paige, Mark Kiszla and Those Guys on Rockies Facebook:
The next time you stay up until 3 AM making memes that reference a mass cult suicide, think about what you're actually doing. You're making ... «Rox Pile, May 15»
Paleo is a stupid cult, and it is killing people
I take your points about Paleo eating which I am trying out even though I agree on the mass cult attitudes and climate change issues, however ... «Crikey, Mar 15»
Kim Gordon, Kurt Cobain, and the Mythology of Punk
... it a fitting lament for an era whose conflicted relationship to popular mythology formed the basis of a late—if not rock music's final—mass cult. «The New Yorker, Feb 15»
'The Blacklist' Recap: A Crazy Cult Lands Ressler in Trouble
A mass cult member massacre, a kidnapped Ressler, and a band of tragic, revenge bent Lost Boys left us feeling stressed out and, in usual ... «BuddyTV, Feb 15»
As Better Call Saul launches, here are the other spin-off shows we …
... UK Netflix the following day, and cable network AMC will be hoping that the same mass cult that developed around odd-couple drug dealers ... «The Independent, Jan 15»
Atwood, a Python, Moomins and more: Christmas gift suggestions …
Once or twice a decade, word of mouth elevates a seemingly uncommercial literary writer to the status of a mass cult: you look around and ... «Montreal Gazette, Dec 14»
Top 10 Brutal, Terrifying Horror Movies You Probably Didn't See in …
... appeared in unexpected smash You're Next, delivers the goods once again with a faux-documentary based heavily on the mass cult suicides ... «moviepilot.com, Dec 14»
Sleepy Guyana wrestles with high rate of suicides
It apparently has nothing to do with the mass cult suicide and murder of more than 900 people in 1978 at Jonestown, the event that made the ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
