Culture works : the political economy of culture / Richard Maxwell, editor

Contributor(s):

Maxwell, Richard [ed.]

Series: Cultural politics ; 18Publication details: Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, cop. 2001Description: 259 pISBN:

081663601X

Summary: When we read best-selling books, go to movies, visit art museums, or take in a game, we customarily ignore the political economy that hammers these features of culture into shape; normally, at such times, we’re not thinking about corporate board room votes, lobbyists, public funding for the arts, the end of the Cold War, intellectual property, or the class divisions of public space. This book aims to change that by offering readers a number of ways to link cultural experience to political economy-to become aware of the ways in which political and economic realities and decisions determine the outlines of spaces and activities in everyday life. The authors seek to show how particular economies and power relations work in familiar and central cultural experiences: art, beer, advertising, dance, sport, shopping, the Web, and media. Their essays provide a series of lucid, critical accounts of various aspects of the political economy of culture and its attendant issues of production, consumption, corporatization, and the struggle for meaning. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02172	1	Available (Disponible)		1900084855

1. Why Culture Works / Richard Maxwell -- 2. Art / Danielle Fox -- 3. Beer / Ben Scott -- 4. Advertising / Inger L. Stole -- 5. Dance / Anna Beatrice Scott -- 6. Sport / David L. Andrews -- 7. Shopping / Susan G. Davis -- 8. The Web / Chad Raphael -- 9. Media / Michael Curtin, Thomas Streeter -- Contributors -- Index

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