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Cultural Analysis (Paperback)
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'Jim McGuigan has done it again. The complex cultural machinery
hiding behind the apparently simple 'facts of life' still fresh in
our collective memory, has been pulled out from its hiding,
exposed, disassembled and put together again, and showed in action
of shaping up its products; all that done to the benefit of us all
- simultaneously producers and product of the life we share.
Another great contribution to cultural studies; and to our
understanding of the world notorious for defying/escaping
understanding. This is exactly what we need 'cultural analysis'
for' - Professor Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology,
University of Leeds 'Jim McGuigan is one of cultural studies'
leading practitioners. This volume is a generous and wide-reaching
exploration of how to use cultural theory to explore a wide variety
of topics, brought together under the sign of the struggle for a
vigorous, participatory public sphere' - Toby Miller, University of
California This book represents a distinctive approach to cultural
analysis, using multi-dimensional methods for addressing issues of
public interest. Stressing the impact of both neoliberalism and the
formation of a 'cool capitalist culture' that has colonised
everyday life around much of the globe, Jim McGuigan deploys his
original concept of the 'cultural public sphere' within several
carefully analysed case studies, including: * celebrity death *
festivals and urban regeneration * 'race' and multicultural
controversy * popular television * social significance of the all
purpose mobile communication device in a privatised and
individualised way of life * riskiness and uncertainty in the
creative and media industries This is a radical intervention in the
research agendas and conceptual development of cultural policy
studies, cultural sociology and, more generally, in the broad field
known as 'cultural studies'. It offers challenging theoretical
arguments that are substantiated with concrete evidence of cultural
and social processes.
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