Readings in Popular Culture
Published on 15. May 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
247 pages
978-0-333-47523-2 (ISBN)
Description
The "Insights" series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best in contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. Each contribution concentrates on a study of a particular work, author or genre in its artistic, historical and cultural context. The 25 essays in this volume, all of which set out to take a look at popular culture, cover a range of topics from T-shirts to computers. A number of the essays examine whether popular culture is a condition or a representation of experience and how it resists and reproduces consumer capitalism.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
illustrations, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
298 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-47523-2 (9780333475232)
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Content
Popular culture - the conditions of control?, Gary Day; MacDonalds' man meets "Reader's Digest", Clive Bloom; acid - burning a hole in the present, Helena Blakemore; Hampton Court revisited - a re-evaluation of the consumer, Andrew Smith; Henry's paperweight - the banks and TV advertising, Robert M.Chaplin; "a thing of beauty and a source of wonderment" - ornaments for the home as cultural status markers, Gwyneth Roberts; pose for thought - bodybuilding and other matters, Gary Day; dialogic society - discourse and subjectivity in British Telecom's "Talkabout" service, Adrian Page; T-shirts and the coming collapse of capitalism, Paul O'Flinn; recipes for success, Michael J.Hayes; that's entertainment, Gary Day; Christmas - celebrating the humbug, Norma Wordsworth; war toys, Graham Dawson; family affairs - angst in the age of mechanical reproduction, Shelagh Young; is the micro macho? - a critique of the fictions of advertising, Mary Knight; a second byte of the apple, Gill Simpson; pleasure and danger, sex and death - reading "True Crime" monthlies, Deborah Cameron; illiberal thoughts on "page 3", Bob Brecher; the Golden Age of cricket, John Simons; Bertolt Brecht and football, or playwright versus playmaker, Barry Emslie; the woman's realm - history repeats itself on the women's page, Ann Treneman; G-men to Jar wars - conditioning the public, Michael Woodiwiss; chaos and order - the New York subway, Richard Bradbury; "and where did you see Star Wars?" - cinema going in Britain, Lez Cooke; museums of fine art and their public, Anthony Crabbe; American national identity and the structure of myth - images of Reagan, R.J.Ellis.