Toward an Urban Cultural Studies
Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2015
X, 277 pages
978-1-137-49856-4 (ISBN)
Description
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
X, 277 p.
File size
2,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-137-49856-4 (9781137498564)
DOI
10.1057/9781137498564
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Book
04/2015
Palgrave MacMillan
€90.94
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Person
Benjamin Fraser is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, USA.
Content
Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL GROUND 1. Why Urban Cultural Studies? Why Henri Lefebvre? 2. Henri Lefebvre's Recalibrated Marxism: Urban Alienation and Cultural Studies 3. The Work (of Art): Putting Art at the Service of the Urban Part II: TEXTUAL VARIATIONS 4. The Urban Dominant: Everyday Life and the City in Textual Criticism 5. The Iconic-Indexical City:Visions of Place in Urban Films 6. Listening to Urban Rhythms:Soundscapes in Popular Music 7. Representing Digital Spaces: Videogames and the Digital Humanities Conclusion
