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Arrested Development (Paperback)

by Andrew Calcutt (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. (2 April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0304339555
  • ISBN-13: 978-0304339556
  • Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.5 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 369,951 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Calcutt suggests that the counterculture of the fifties and sixties provided a verbal and visual language for today's victim culture and the authoritarian politics he sees as arising from it. He views the consequent erosion of adulthood as a social problem which must be overcome.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this book!, 27 Sep 2001
Are you fed up with people talking about Bagpuss and playing with computer games; grownups reading Harry Potter; do you find kitsch, well, not ironic, just naff? In your 20s do you yearn for more then a life of endless adolescence (but with more money)?

This book will help you to understand why, despite the fact that we should all be deliriously happy with all our leisure time, the ability to do what we want when we want at whatever age we want, ours is a society that is riddled with anxiety and depression and consumed with a desperate search for 'meaning' . Read this and shake off the dead weight of contemporary sensibility, and understand why todays culture is more opressive, anti-intellectual and less progressive then 'straight' and conservative pre-counterculture culture.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Disects pop culture and displays its authoritarian nature., 13 Jun 1999
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In this tremendous work the former record producer and journalist, Andrew Calcutt, deftly analyises popular culture, starting with its origins in the "Beats" and the counterculture and demonstrates how its values have become internalised into the contemporary political landscape.

Far from delivering us from oppression, the culture of the draft dodgers and 1960s radicals have emasculated our ability to affect change in our society.

Calcutt demonstrates how pop culture, through for example its use of Victim, Madness and Child motifs, have undermined the values of adulthood and heralded a new era of banal conformity where radical change is off the agenda. Essentially the pop culture of today acts as an authoritarian mould that holds us all back in its derision of rational adult activity.

The book covers much more than can be described in these few lines - suck it and see.

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