Television Mythologies: Stars, Shows and Signs By Len Masterman
Publisher: Routledge 1987-05-18 | 152 Pages | ISBN: 041503700X | PDF | 1.1 MB
Roland Barthes wrote Mythologies between 1954 and 1956. His sharp and elegant studies of such aspects of popular culture as striptease, wrestling, toys, tourist guides, etc., were produced at a time when most of the contributors to this volume were still at school. Such is the insularity of British culture that Mythologies was not translated into English until 1972....