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Fictions of collective life : public drama in late modern culture / David Chaney.

Title
Fictions of collective life : public drama in late modern culture / David Chaney.
Author
Chaney, David C.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 1993.

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Description
228 p.; 23cm.
Subject
  • Culture
  • Communication and culture
  • Popular culture
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
ISBN
  • 0415032334
  • 0415093198 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^92040460^
OCLC
27011661
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library