A Philosophy of Mass Art by Noël Carroll
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ISBN: 9780198742371
Clarendon Press | 19 February 1998
Paperback | 440 pages
Noël Carroll addresses why mass‑produced art forms such as movies, television, comics, and rock music have been largely ignored or misunderstood by analytic philosophers. He develops philosophical frameworks for understanding the relationship between mass art and human emotions, morality, and ideology, drawing on the work of thinkers such as Collingwood, Adorno, Benjamin, McLuhan, and Fiske. Mixing conceptual analysis with vivid examples, Carroll argues that mass art deserves serious philosophical consideration and proposes new ways of thinking about its aesthetic and cultural significance.