Bread and Circuses
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"FOR better or worse, the most powerful, influential instruments for the dissemination of values, knowledge, and art are today the mass media. Among artists and intellectuals, the cultural domination of radio, film, and television is normally viewed with apprehension. Teachers of literature, for example, often express the fear that books are an endangered species, that literacy is dying out, that it is giving way to what Jerzy Kosinski calls "videocy.""--Bread and Circuses (1983) by Patrick Brantlinger, incipit |
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Bread and Circuses: Theories of Mass Culture As Social Decay (1983) is a book by Patrick Brantlinger.
In Bread and Circuses, Patrick Brantlinger analyzes the idea of "bread and circuses" as a narcotic for the masses throughout history. Brantlinger defines as "negative classicism" the idea that Rome was decadent and that our society is sliding downhill to a Roman-style decadence.
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