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In Search of the Paper Tiger: A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 Paper: 978-0-87972-356-9 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-355-2 Library of Congress Classification PS374.D4H6 1987 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.087209355
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas. See other books on: Detective and mystery stories, American | Detective and mystery stories, English | English-speaking countries | Mystery & Detective | Search See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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In Search of the Paper Tiger: A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Paper: 978-0-87972-356-9
Cloth: 978-0-87972-355-2
Paper: 978-0-87972-356-9
Cloth: 978-0-87972-355-2
The author examines the process of social life and the relationship of myth, popular formula, and the mystery genre to social psychology. The book presents social construction of reality theory as a methodology upon which the structure of mass-mediated popular fiction can be examined, postulating definitions of myth and formula and advancing a new language of literary analysis that acknowledges the socially defining, democratizing experience of popular fiction. Social-psychological analysis is focused on the mystery genre and examines its taxonomy, including the supernatural, fiction noir, gangster, thief, thriller, and detective formulas.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
