In the 1970s, “Bicentennial Minutes” modeled a kind of mass-culture unity we’re unlikely to match for the country’s next big birthday. Critic’s Notebook In the 1970s, “Bicentennial Minutes” modeled a ...

Was Michael Jackson’s death really also a funeral for mass culture? Somehow, our shared national nostalgia for “Thriller” (and all his many other wonderful, weird, beautiful songs) became fodder for ...

Engines snarl and pop against the quiet of a Massachusetts night, their echoes bouncing off strip mall facades and sleepy suburban streets. Under a wash of neon lights — purple, green, red and blue — ...

Americans under 50, as the cliche goes, were raised by the mass media. And this fall, as grown children sometimes do, some of them began to neglect their mother. On the major broadcast TV networks, ...

In the midst of a seven-day visit to the U.S., France’s Andre Malraux stopped off in Manhattan last week and delivered a remarkable speech in which he eloquently expanded the crucial role of culture ...

Melvyn Bragg considers how technology and increasing access to education made possible the rise of a true mass culture in the twentieth century. He examines how the rise of cinema and photography ...