Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE Publications, 2007 M08 10 - 203 pages 'It is great to see the re-publication of the classic Consumer Culture and Postmodernism. The extensive new material is erudite, informative and important, particularly locating consumer culture in the context of global climate change and postmodernism within a framing that seriously displaces the 'west' from centre-stage' - John Urry, Lancaster University The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: - A fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition - A major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question' - An update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism - An account of multiple and alternative modernities - The challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day. |
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... mass - produced con- sumer commodities which liberated creativity from art and allowed it to migrate into the multiplicity of mass - produced everyday objects ( the influ- ence of surrealism on Benjamin's theoretical framework is ...
... mass - produced con- sumer commodities which liberated creativity from art and allowed it to migrate into the multiplicity of mass - produced everyday objects ( the influ- ence of surrealism on Benjamin's theoretical framework is ...
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... mass cul- ture has been used in this way by the intellectuals whose distaste for mass culture and preference for elitist high culture also betrays a nostalgia ( B.S. Turner , 1987 ) . The conclusion of some commentators has been to ...
... mass cul- ture has been used in this way by the intellectuals whose distaste for mass culture and preference for elitist high culture also betrays a nostalgia ( B.S. Turner , 1987 ) . The conclusion of some commentators has been to ...
Page 132
... mass culture is the perverse outcome of the misguided quest for a common cul- ture . For those who fear the dilution ... mass communications are often enlisted to suggest that society has become mas- sified and an homogeneous tasteless ...
... mass culture is the perverse outcome of the misguided quest for a common cul- ture . For those who fear the dilution ... mass communications are often enlisted to suggest that society has become mas- sified and an homogeneous tasteless ...
Contents
Definitions and Interpretations | 1 |
Theories of Consumer Culture | 13 |
Towards a Sociology of Postmodern Culture | 28 |
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