Television Studies Books High Anxiety: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy by Patricia Mellencamp Published by Indiana University Press --------------------------- TITLE : High Anxiety SUBTITLE: Catastrophe, Scandal, Age, and Comedy AUTHOR : Patricia Mellencamp TRANS/ED: AWARDS : DESCRIPT: " . . . acute look at the state of contemporary culture . . . A humorous . . . book, it yields rewarding advice for our perception of reality and fiction." -Back Stage / Shoot "Mellencamp's ease of movement between the conceptual and the commonplace is the great strength of this work. . . . High Anxiety is an invaluable contribution to the cultural studies debate . . . " -Art + Text Written with wit and flair, High Anxiety is a critique of the temporality of U.S. television, a narrative journey between Freud's texts on obsession and the cult of anxiety pervading contemporary culture. Operation Desert Storm, I Love Lucy, Anita Hill, Twin Peaks, and Oprah are a few of the subjects which form this "anxious" mosaic of popular culture. SERIES : Arts and Politics of the Everyday RIGHTS : World SPECS : 432 pages, frontis., 18 figs., notes, index, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 PUB-DATE: 1992 KIND 1 : cloth ISBN 1 : 0-253-33744-5 PRICE 1 : $39.95 KIND 2 : paper ISBN 2 : 0-253-20735-5 PRICE 2 : $18.95 KIND 3 : ISBN 3 : PRICE 3 :

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