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Consumer culture and postmodernism

Mike Featherstone

(Theory, culture and society)

Sage, 2007

2nd ed

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [182]-197

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes: a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the first edition a major new chapter on 'Modernity and the Cultural Question' an update on postmodernism and the development of contemporary theory after postmodernism an account of multiple and alternative modernities the challenges of consumer culture in Japan and China. The result is a book that shakes the boundaries of debate, from one of the foremost writers on culture and postmodernism of the present day.

Table of Contents

Modern and Postmodern Theories Of Consumer Culture Towards a Sociology Of Postmodern Culture Cultural Change and Social Practice The Aestheticization of Everyday Life Lifestyle and Consumer Culture City Cultures and Postmodern Lifestyles Consumer Culture and Global Disorder Common Culture or Uncommon Cultures? The Globalization of Diversity Modernity and the Cultural Question

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