| Description |
[ix], 228 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
1. Spectacular Society/Society of Spectacle -- Order and change -- Social dramas -- Two forms of spectacular social order -- Social order in a society of the spectacle -- Spectacular drama -- 2. Dramatising Change: Theatricality and Spectacle in Nineteenth Century Britain -- Staged dramas -- Becoming the theatre -- Urban landscape and popular culture -- Spectacular entertainment -- 3. Photographic Pictures -- Popular photography -- Public memory -- Conventions of looking -- Ritual and reflexivity -- 4. Discourses of Public Life -- public sphere -- Addressing the public -- discourse of actuality -- Public figures -- 5. Marketing Culture -- abstract crowd -- Mass communication and mass consumerism -- Leisure and the theatre of shopping -- Utopian intimations -- Traversing a fictive landscape -- 6. Conclusion: Popular and Culture |
| Analysis |
Culture |
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Culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index |
| Subject |
Communication and culture.
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Culture.
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Myth.
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Popular culture.
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Ritual.
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| LC no. |
92040460 |
| ISBN |
0415032334 |
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0415093198 (paperback) |
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