Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.
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Iain Chambers was born in northern England in 1949. He has lived for many years in Naples, Italy, where he teaches at the Oriental University. He has written extensively on metropolitan and postcolonial cultures, and is presently engaged in re-thinking the conditions of a multiple modernity in the context of the Mediterranean.
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It is in the city that contemporary popular culture - shopping and video arcades, cinemas, clubs, supermarkets, pubs, and the Saturday afternoon purchase of Saturday night clothes - has its home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
documentary film movement, urban popular culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, National Film Archive, Tin Pan Alley, United States, James Brown, Carlo Romano, Coronation Street, David Johnson, Peter Osborne, Second World War, Ufficio Ricerche, Bob Marley, Daily Mail, Duke Ellington, New Orleans, Picture Post, Susan Sontag, West End, Covent Garden, Double Indemnity, Elvis Presley, George Orwell, High Street, James Mason, Johnny Rotten New!
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It is in the city that contemporary popular culture - shopping and video arcades, cinemas, clubs, supermarkets, pubs, and the Saturday afternoon purchase of Saturday night clothes - has its home. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
documentary film movement, urban popular culture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, National Film Archive, Tin Pan Alley, United States, James Brown, Carlo Romano, Coronation Street, David Johnson, Peter Osborne, Second World War, Ufficio Ricerche, Bob Marley, Daily Mail, Duke Ellington, New Orleans, Picture Post, Susan Sontag, West End, Covent Garden, Double Indemnity, Elvis Presley, George Orwell, High Street, James Mason, Johnny Rotten New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Coronation Street (Television Monograph, 13) by Richard Dyer on page 118, page 123, and Back Matter
- Popular Culture: Past and Present by Tony Bennett in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Making Histories: Studies in History Writing and Politics by Richard Johnson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Australian Cultural Studies: A READER by John Frow on 5 pages
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- Capitalizing on Culture: Critical Theory for Cultural Studies (Cultural Spaces) by Shane Gunster in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Knowing Your Place: Rural Identity and Cultural Hierarchy by Barbara Ching in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England 1603-1660 by David Underdown on page 45, and Back Matter
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