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Raymond Williams on culture & society : essential writings / edited by Jim McGuigan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London SAGE c2014Description: xxvi, 342 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781849207713 (pbk.)
  • 1849207712 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Raymond Williams on culture and society
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 828.91409 23
LOC classification:
  • PR6073.I4329 A65 2014
Other classification:
  • MR 7100
Contents:
Introduction: Raymond Williams on culture and society -- Culture is ordinary -- Mass, masses and mass communication -- Structure of feeling and selective tradition -- Advertising : the magic system -- Communication systems -- The idea of a common culture -- Social Darwinism -- Base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory -- The technology and the society -- Drama in a dramatized society -- Communications as cultural science -- Developments in the sociology of culture -- Realism and non-naturalism -- A lecture on realism -- Means of communication as means of production -- 'Industrial' and 'post-industrial' society -- The culture of nations -- Resources for a journey of hope -- State culture and beyond -- The future of cultural studies.
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Books Blantyre Branch Library General Collection NFIC 828.91409 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0095350
Books Salima Branch General Collection NFIC 828.91409 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0092149

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Raymond Williams on culture and society -- Culture is ordinary -- Mass, masses and mass communication -- Structure of feeling and selective tradition -- Advertising : the magic system -- Communication systems -- The idea of a common culture -- Social Darwinism -- Base and superstructure in Marxist cultural theory -- The technology and the society -- Drama in a dramatized society -- Communications as cultural science -- Developments in the sociology of culture -- Realism and non-naturalism -- A lecture on realism -- Means of communication as means of production -- 'Industrial' and 'post-industrial' society -- The culture of nations -- Resources for a journey of hope -- State culture and beyond -- The future of cultural studies.

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