Benjamin Fraser

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies

Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Hispanic Urban Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-50524-1
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781349505241
• ISBN-10: 1349505242
• Artikelnr.: 45082359

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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