Hiding in the Light
On Images and Things
1st Edition
Published on 2. September 2003
288 pages
978-0-203-35886-3 (ISBN)
Description
Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and promotional music videos. He assesses their broad cultural significance and charts their impact on contemporary popular tastes.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Hiding in the Light
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section 1: Young Lives
- I. Hiding in the Light: Youth Surveillance and Display
- 2. Mistaken Identities: Why John Paul Ritchie Didn't Do It His Way
- Section 2: Taste, Nation and Popular Culturre
- 3. Towards a Cartography of Taste 1935-1962
- 4. Object as Image: the Italian Scooter Cycle
- 5. In Poor Taste: Notes on Pop
- Section 3: Living on the Line
- 6. Making do with the "Nonetheless": In the Whacky World of Biff
- 7. The Bottom Line on Planet One: Squaring Upto The Face
- Section 4: Postmodernism and "the other side
- 8. Staking out the Posts
- 9. Post-script 1: Vital Strategies
- 10. Post-script 2: After (the) Word
- 11. Post-script 3: Space and Boundary
- 12. Post-script 4: Learning to Live on the Road to Nowhere Notes and References
- Notes and References
- Acknowledgements and picture credits
- Index
