Bread and Circuses : Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay, Hardcover by Brantlinger, Patrick, ISBN 0801415985, ISBN-13 9780801415982, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the...