Keywords: mass culture
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American Consumer Culture, Fall 2001
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Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: Examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. Explores how such things as department stores, advertising, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics.
Modern Art and Mass Culture, Spring 2004
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Subject: Arts
Collection: MIT OpenCourseWare
Grade Level:
Post-secondary
Abstract: Examines significant episodes in the history of modern art from the end of the enlightenment to the early twentieth-century in relation to emerging visual technologies (lithography, photography, the poster, photomontage), urban audiences, and consumer culture. Major artistic movements (Romanticism, Realism, ... More »