{"product_id":"memes-and-the-future-of-pop-culture-9789004398283","title":"Memes and the Future of Pop Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s—an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This coalition gave pop culture its identity, allowing it to thrive and form alliances with artistic and literary movements. But pop culture may have run its course with the rise of meme culture. This publication revisits the social, psychic, and aesthetic roots of pop culture, suggesting that meme culture has fragmented its historical flow, thus threatening to bring about its demise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMemes and the Future of Pop Culture   Marcel Danesi   Abstract   Keywords   1 Introduction   2 Origins   3 The Protestant Ethic   4 The Roaring Twenties   5 Theorizing Pop Culture   6 Technology and the Marketplace   7 Literary-Artistic Bricolage   8 Carnival, Archetype, and Mythology Theories Revisited   9 Sociobiology and the Theory of Memes   10 Meme Culture   11 The Simulacrum   12 Meme Culture versus Pop Culture   13 The “Communal Brain”   14 The Global Village   15 The “Corso” and “Ricorso” of History   16 The Tetrad   17 The Future   References","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210774045015,"sku":"9789004398283","price":71.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/memes-and-the-future-of-pop-culture-9789004398283","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}