Trash Culture Popular Culture and the Great Tradition

"Simon writes as if people are unwilling to analyze pop culture, but they go around thinking hard about tough old Great Literature because they see entertainment as 'escapist fun' and literature as demanding. Yet we've reached the point where entertainment demands far too much from us, most people go around analyzing every aspect of it all the time, half the population works in some form of media or entertainment and loves to give their opinion, and when they want to get away they slip into a Waugh novel."Simon, Richard K. is the author of 'Trash Culture Popular Culture and the Great Tradition', published 1999 under ISBN 9780520222236 and ISBN 0520222237.