Cultural Analysis
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781849204422
Description: Jim McGuigan has done it again. The complex cultural machinery hiding behind the apparently simple 'facts of life' still fresh in our collective memory, has been pulled out from its hiding, exposed, disassembled and put together again, and showed in action of shaping up its products; all that done to the benefit of us all - simultaneously producers and product of the life we share. Another great contribution to cultural studies; and to our understanding of the world notorious for defying/escaping understanding. This is exactly what we need 'cultural analysis' for' - Professor Zygmunt Bauman, E.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: CULTURAL ANALYSIS; 1 THE CULTURAL PUBLIC SPHERE; 2 BRITISH IDENTITY ANDTHE PEOPLE'S PRINCESS; 3 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A CULTURAL DISASTER; 4 A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES; 5 IDENTITY AND THE CRISIS OF COMMUNITY; 6 SOCIOLOGY OF THE MOBILE PHONE; 7 RISKY CULTURE; 8 NEOLIBERALISM, URBAN REGENERATION AND CULTURAL POLICY; 9 APPRENTICES TO COOL CAPITALISM; 10 CULTURAL STUDIES AND COOL CAPITALISM; REFERENCES; INDEX.