Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience

by Deborah Cartmell (Editor), Deborah Cartnell, Helen Merrick (Contributor)

Patterns of production and consumption are one of the foundation stones of media studies in the 1990s. This second book in Pluto's Film/Fiction series takes the audience as its starting point in an enticing collection of essays on aspects of audience response, interaction and manipulation in a diverse range of films, from "high culture"literary adaptations (The Scarlet Letter, Pride and Prejudice and Schindler; ' List) to comic book adaptations (Tank Girl, Judge Dredd) and genre horror movies such as The Shining and Nightmare on Elm St. A concluding essay explores the differences and the similarities between adaptations of high and low cultural forms in a mass film media.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1997