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Title Australian cultural studies : a reader / edited by John Frow and Meaghan Morris
Published Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [1993]
©1993

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 MELB  306.0994 Fro/Acs 1993  AVAILABLE
Description xxxii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Part I. Representation wars -- Part II. Aesthetics and everyday life -- Part III. The uses of popular culture -- Part IV. The politics of publics -- Part V. The practice of place
Summary "Cultural studies has emerged as a major force in the analysis of cultural systems and their relation to social power. "Rather than being interested in television or architecture or pinball machines themselves - as industrial or aesthetic structures - cultural studies tends to be interested in the way such apparatuses work as points of concentration of social meaning, as 'media' (literally)," according to John Frow and Meaghan Morris." "Here, two of Australia's leading cultural critics bring together work that represents a distinctive national tradition, moving between high theory and detailed readings of localized cultural practices. Ethnographic audience research, cultural policy studies, popular consumption, "bad" aboriginal art, landscape in feature films, style, form and history in TV miniseries, and the intersections of tourism with history and memory - these are among the topics addressed in a landmark volume that cuts across myriad traditional disciplines."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Popular culture -- Australia -- History.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Popular culture
Australia -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002863
Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Cultural policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005456
Author Morris, Meaghan.
Frow, John, 1948-
ISBN 0252063538 paperback
0252020596