Toward an Urban Cultural Studies

Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities

Benjamin Fraser (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2015
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-50524-1 (ISBN)

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Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.

Benjamin Fraser is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, USA.

Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL GROUND 1. Why Urban Cultural Studies? Why Henri Lefebvre? 2. Henri Lefebvre's Recalibrated Marxism: Urban Alienation and Cultural Studies 3. The Work (of Art): Putting Art at the Service of the Urban Part II: TEXTUAL VARIATIONS 4. The Urban Dominant: Everyday Life and the City in Textual Criticism 5. The Iconic-Indexical City:Visions of Place in Urban Films 6. Listening to Urban Rhythms:Soundscapes in Popular Music 7. Representing Digital Spaces: Videogames and the Digital Humanities Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2017
Reihe/Serie	Hispanic Urban Studies
Zusatzinfo	X, 277 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Cultural Studies • digital humanities • Film Studies • Henri Lefebvre • Hispanic Studies • Literature • Philosophy • popular music • Urban Cultural Studies • Urban Geography • urban studies • Urban theory • videogames
ISBN-10	1-349-50524-2 / 1349505242
ISBN-13	978-1-349-50524-1 / 9781349505241
Zustand	Neuware