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Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life - Couverture souple

Storey, John

 
9780340720363: Cultural Consumption and Everyday Life
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0340720360 ISBN 13 : 9780340720363
Editeur : Hodder Arnold, 1999

Synopsis

Cultural consumption is one of the key activities of everyday life: it says who we are or who we would like to be, it can produce and maintain particular lifestyles, it can promise consolation in time of loss or symbolise success and achievement; it can provide the material for our dreams or maintain social difference and social distinction. For most people, consumption is the practice of culture. This book - the first in a major new cultural studies series - explores the consumption of culture from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studies. It provides a critical map of the field, bringing together work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy, work on consumer culture in anthropology and sociology, and work on media audiences within media studies and sociology. It explores historical work on the consumption of culture, outlines theoretical perspectives, reviews key work in ethnography and surveys recent debates on postmodernism, consumption and identity. The final chapter offers a critical reassessment of the place of consumption in the continuing development of cultural studies.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Cultural consumption is one of the key activities of everyday life: it says who we are or who we would like to be, it can produce and maintain particular lifestyles, it can promise consolation in time of loss or symbolise success and achievement; it can provide the material for our dreams or maintain social difference and social distinction. For most people, consumption is the practice of culture.

This book - the first in a major new cultural studies series - explores the consumption of culture from the postdisciplinary perspective of cultural studies. It provides a critical map of the field, bringing together work on reception theory in literary studies and philosophy, work on consumer culture in anthropology and sociology, and work on media audiences within media studies and sociology. It explores historical work on the consumption of culture, outlines theoretical perspectives, reviews key work in ethnography and surveys recent debates on postmodernism, consumption and identity. The final chapter offers a critical reassessment of the place of consumption in the continuing development of cultural studies.

Revue de presse

Excellent for lecturers and students on courses that are concerned with questions of consumption. It will arm student with confidence in the knowledge that they will be able to read and understand the relevance of works that are situated in different disciplinary fields. (Years Work in Critical Cultural Theory)

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Éditeur
Hodder Arnold
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0340720360
ISBN 13 
9780340720363
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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