Fictions of collective life : public drama in late modern culture /
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| Author / Creator: | Chaney, David C. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. |
| Description: | 228 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1464579 |
Table of 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. The public sphere. Addressing the public. The discourse of actuality. Public figures
- 5. Marketing Culture. The abstract crowd. Mass communication and mass consumerism. Leisure and the theatre of shopping. Utopian intimations. Traversing a fictive landscape
- 6. Conclusion: Popular and Culture.