Consumer Culture and PostmodernismSAGE, 2007 M07 11 - 232 pages 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:
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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... artistic production. Whereas for Jameson it was the new mass consumer culture which was destroying intellectual culture,forBell (1976)it wasthe a section ofthe intellectual and artisticelite, thoseassociated with the developmentof ...
... artistic production. Whereas for Jameson it was the new mass consumer culture which was destroying intellectual culture,forBell (1976)it wasthe a section ofthe intellectual and artisticelite, thoseassociated with the developmentof ...
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... intellectual and artistic movement with clearsocialroots.To scaleupthe attribution of the characteristics associatedwith postmodernism toanepochal shifthas always seemed problematic.Thediscovery ofthe dynamics, the'where, when ...
... intellectual and artistic movement with clearsocialroots.To scaleupthe attribution of the characteristics associatedwith postmodernism toanepochal shifthas always seemed problematic.Thediscovery ofthe dynamics, the'where, when ...
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... intellectual fad. One of the problems is that the term is at once fashionable yet irritatingly elusive to define. As ... cultural and aesthetictrend now knownas Postmodernism – in art and architecture, music and film, drama and fiction ...
... intellectual fad. One of the problems is that the term is at once fashionable yet irritatingly elusive to define. As ... cultural and aesthetictrend now knownas Postmodernism – in art and architecture, music and film, drama and fiction ...
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... artistic, intellectual andacademic fields in whichtheterm 'postmodernism' has beenused, is striking.We have music (Cage, Stockhausen, Briers, Holloway, Tredici,Laurie Anderson); art (Rauschenberg, Baselitz, Mach,Schnabel, Kiefer;some ...
... artistic, intellectual andacademic fields in whichtheterm 'postmodernism' has beenused, is striking.We have music (Cage, Stockhausen, Briers, Holloway, Tredici,Laurie Anderson); art (Rauschenberg, Baselitz, Mach,Schnabel, Kiefer;some ...
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... artistic and intellectual fieldsand their interrelationship. Here we would need to consider postmodernism in terms of a second 'level'ofculture, what is often called the cultural sphere, and considerthemeans of transmission, and ...
... artistic and intellectual fieldsand their interrelationship. Here we would need to consider postmodernism in terms of a second 'level'ofculture, what is often called the cultural sphere, and considerthemeans of transmission, and ...
Contents
Towardsa Sociology ofPostmodern Culture 4 Cultural Change and Social Practice | |
The Aestheticization of Everyday Life | |
Lifestyle and Consumer Culture 7 City Culturesand Postmodern Lifestyles 8 Consumer Culture and Global Disorder 9 Common Culture or Uncommo... | |
The Globalization of Diversity | |
Index | |
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