 The great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as the "National Enquirer" and celebrity gossip magazines like "People" serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past.Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods; "Playboy" magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book, "The Book of the Courtier"; and "Cosmopolitan" magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton.When speaking about trash TV, the term is referred to a whole branch of TV production that tends to exaggerate and to take themes to an extreme level.