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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture
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The Journal of American Culture
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March 1, 2005
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Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture John G. Cawelti. Madison: Popular Press, 2004.
John Cawelti is both a founding father and seminal figure in the popular culture movement. When he retired from the University of Kentucky in 2000, after half a century researching and "writing about popular culture, his work was known and admired far and wide. This volume is his compilation of a collection of his essays, all part of an attempt to use the concept of formula to suggest that works of popular culture were not degraded specimens of traditional literature, but had formal patterns and thus a unique aesthetic.
His work proceeded in two main directions. One was finding a way to manage the formal ...
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