| In Search of the Paper Tiger: A Sociological Perspective of Myth, Formula, and the Mystery Genre in the Entertainment Print Mass Medium Contributor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879723564 ISBN-13: 9780879723569 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture - Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction |
| Dewey: 813.087 |
| LCCN: 86072355 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6" W x 9" (0.49 lbs) 142 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |