Culture and Media

This book examines the relationships between society andmaterial culture: the interaction between people and things.Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to materialculture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects,largely overlooking the material impact that objects have oneveryday li…

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*What is distinctive about urban life?*What key trends have shaped the contemporary city?*How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies?This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through…

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Raymond Williams' reputation rests mainly on his contribution to literary and cultural studies, but he was also an important critic and theoretician in the field of drama. "Drama in Performance", first published in 1954, pioneered a method of dramaturgical rather than literary-critical analysis of p…

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