This book represents a distinctive approach to cultural analysis, using multi-dimensional methods for addressing issues of public interest. The approach, which deploys Jim McGuigan’s original concept of the cultural public sphere, is demonstrated in several case studies, including:Celebrity deathFestivals and urban regenerationRace and multicultural controversyPopular television (for instance, Little Britain and The Apprentice)Social significance of the all-purpose mobile communication device in a privatized and individualized way of lifeRiskiness and uncertainty at both the levels of environmental politics and working life in the creative and media industries
Author(s): Professor Jim McGuigan
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 200
CONTENTS......Page 8
INTRODUCTION: CULTURAL ANALYSIS......Page 10
1 THE CULTURAL PUBLIC SPHERE......Page 17
2 BRITISH IDENTITY ANDTHE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS......Page 31
3 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF A CULTURAL DISASTER......Page 48
4 A COMMUNITY OF COMMUNITIES......Page 67
5 IDENTITY AND THE CRISIS OF COMMUNITY......Page 80
6 SOCIOLOGY OF THE MOBILE PHONE......Page 93
7 RISKY CULTURE......Page 108
8 NEOLIBERALISM, URBAN REGENERATION AND CULTURAL POLICY......Page 126
9 APPRENTICES TO COOL CAPITALISM......Page 138
10 CULTURAL STUDIES AND COOL CAPITALISM......Page 150
REFERENCES......Page 168
INDEX......Page 184
