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[ecrea] ‘A Passion for Cultural Studies’ and ‘Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City’, by Ben Highmore

Fri Jan 24 10:35:24 GMT 2014




Palgrave Macmillan publishes two books by popular cultural studies author Ben Highmore (author of The Great Indoors, Profile Books).



In A Passion for Cultural Studies, Ben Highmore uses the feelings, or ‘passions’ provoked by everyday culture to explore the culture that surrounds us, and uses it as a basis to introduce and explain the key ideas, debates and theories that are central to cultural studies. Accessible and absorbing, this compact book is the ideal entry-point into cultural studies. The chapters draw on everyday examples to examine problematic and complex issues, looking at the experience of migration, the nature of the media, the lure of commodities, the world of taste and the culture of love.



'Modest in scope, persistent in pursuit of its topic, even avowedly personal and sentimental at times, this short book promises to be a long player: it will spark engagement in the animating debates and questions of cultural studies. In short: A Passion for Cultural Studies delivers on the promise of its title.' – Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University, UK



Find out more about A Passion for Cultural Studies: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=274383





The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as well as movies and novels? Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City provides an innovative approach to the modern city. By arguing that the most distinctive aspect of urban life is the varied, and often conflicting, rhythms of the city, this book sets out to find ways of registering the dynamic complexity of the city. Using a range of cultural forms Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe's London, in Parisian department stores, in colonial and anti-colonial Algiers, in the North American cities of recent detective fiction, and in the virtual city of The Matrix.



'Cityscapes is itself complex and multilayered. The reader can re-enter it in different times and places to gain insights not only into the specific texts it discusses, but into ways of seeing the city. Highmore's attention to the power of dynamics of city spaces is particularly laudable.' - Susan Alice Fischer, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London



Find out more about Cityscapes: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=262905





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