Street noises : Parisian pleasure, 1900-40

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Street noises : Parisian pleasure, 1900-40

Adrian Rifkin ; with a foreword by George Melly

Manchester University Press , distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

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Bibliography: p. 210-214

Includes index

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Description

This illustrated study of the sorts of pleasures that Paris can offer and has offered from 1900 to 1940 draws upon cultural studies, popular cultural sources and critical theory to round out its picture of the city.

Table of Contents

  • The hold of Paris on history
  • oh Yvette, oh Maurice
  • some snapshots
  • neighbouring states (soldiers and sailors)
  • passages of reality and the zones of bargain pleasures
  • the form of a conclusion.

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