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Article: Shows About Nothing: Nihilism and Popular Culture from `The Exorcist' to `Seinfeld'.(Review)
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- The American Enterprise
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- September 1, 2000
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Shows About Nothing: Nihilism and Popular Culture from `The Exorcist' to `Seinfeld' By Thomas S. Hibbs Spence, 192 pages, $22
Popular culture has become an equal opportunity target of criticism for the increasing number of academics who write about it. Left-wing critics view movies and television as the tool of corporate America, and condemn them both for creating a consumerist ethos that keeps the products moving off the shelves and for defusing potentially explosive impulses in the general population that might otherwise be channeled into revolutionary activity. Right-wing critics view popular culture as undermining the very American regime leftwing critics ...
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