In High TheoryLow Culture Brottman uses the tools of high cultural theoryto examine many areas of todays popular culture including style magazinessport shopping... » 

In High TheoryLow Culture Brottman uses the tools of high cultural theoryto examine many areas of todays popular culture including style magazinessport shopping tabloid newspapers horror movies and pornography. In doingso she not only demonstrates the practical use of high theory as it relatesto our everyday world but she also investigates the kinds of low culturethat are regularly dismissed by academic scholars. Through a close examinationof these cultural forms Brottman reveals how the kinds of popular culture thatwe usually take for granted are in fact far more complex and sophisticatedthan is normally assumed. «