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Author |
: John Griffiths |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2022-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351024686 |
ISBN-13 |
: 135102468X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire and Popular Culture by : John Griffiths
From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.
Author |
: John M. MacKenzie |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526119568 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526119560 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Imperialism and Popular Culture by : John M. MacKenzie
Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond World War I, when the most popular media, cinema and broadcasting, continued to convey an essentially late-19th-century world view, while government agencies like the Empire Marketing Board sought to convince the public of the economic value of empire. Youth organizations, which had propagated imperialist and militarist attitudes before the war, struggled to adapt to the new internationalist climate.
Author |
: John Griffiths |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1138495042 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781138495043 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire and Popular Culture by : John Griffiths
From 1830, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This volume will focus on institutions and popular culture such as clubs, societies, missions, churches, educational institutions and the ways in which people were depicted in popular culture.
Author |
: John Griffiths |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 447 |
Release |
: 2022-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351024761 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351024760 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire and Popular Culture by : John Griffiths
From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations relating to events in the history of Empire, and the construction of Empire Day in the early Edwardian period, most citizens were encouraged to think of themselves not only as citizens of a nation but of an Empire. Much of the popular culture of the period presented Empire as a force for ‘civilisation’ but it was often far from the truth and rather, Empire was a repressive mechanism designed ultimately to benefit white settlers and the metropolitan economy. This four volume collection on Empire and Popular Culture contains a wide array of primary sources, complimented by editorial narratives which help the reader to understand the significance of the documents contained therein. It is informed by the recent advocacy of a ‘four-nation’ approach to Empire containing documents which view Empire from the perspective of England, Scotland Ireland and Wales and will also contain material produced for Empire audiences, as well as indigenous perspectives. The sources reveal both the celebratory and the notorious sides of Empire. This volume considers the ways in which ‘Empire’ permeated the British public sphere, exploring exhibitions, spectacle and entertainment.
Author |
: John Griffiths |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 546 |
Release |
: 2022-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351024723 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351024728 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire and Popular Culture by : John Griffiths
From 1830, if not before, the Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. From consumables, to the excitement of colonial wars, celebrations relating to events in the history of Empire, and the construction of Empire Day in the early Edwardian period, most citizens were encouraged to think of themselves not only as citizens of a nation but of an Empire. Much of the popular culture of the period presented Empire as a force for ‘civilisation’ but it was often far from the truth and rather, Empire was a repressive mechanism designed ultimately to benefit white settlers and the metropolitan economy. This four volume collection on Empire and Popular Culture contains a wide array of primary sources, complimented by editorial narratives which help the reader to understand the significance of the documents contained therein. It is informed by the recent advocacy of a ‘four-nation’ approach to Empire containing documents which view Empire from the perspective of England, Scotland Ireland and Wales and will also contain material produced for Empire audiences, as well as indigenous perspectives. The sources reveal both the celebratory and the notorious sides of Empire. In this, the third volume of Empire and Popular Culture, documents are presented that shed light on three principal themes: The shaping of personal. collective and national identities of British citizens by the Empire; the commemoration of individuals and collective groups who were noted for their roles in Empire building; and finally, the way in which the Empire entered popular culture by means of trade with the Empire and the goods that were imported.
Author |
: Nadia Atia |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2018-07-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317299011 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317299019 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Popular Postcolonialisms by : Nadia Atia
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for change. It considers a range of fiction, film, and non-hegemonic cultural forms, engaging with topics such as environmental change, language activism, and cultural imperialism alongside analysis of figures like Tarzan and Frankenstein. Building on the work of cultural theorists, it asks whether the popular is actually where elite conceptions of the world may best be challenged. It also addresses middlebrow cultural production, which has tended to be seen as antithetical to radical traditions, asking whether this might, in fact, form an unlikely realm from which to question, critique, or challenge colonial tropes. Examining the ways in which the imprint of colonial history is in evidence (interrogated, mythologized or sublimated) within popular cultural production, this book raises a series of speculative questions exploring the interrelation of the popular and the postcolonial.
Author |
: Shelley Streeby |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2002-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520223141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520223144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Sensations by : Shelley Streeby
"American Sensations is an erudite and sweeping cultural history of the sensationalist literatures and mass cultures of the American 1848. It is the finest book yet written on the U.S.-Mexican War, and how it was central to the making and unmaking of U.S. mass culture, class, and racial formation."—José David Saldívar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies "A major work that will challenge current paradigms of nineteenth-century literature and culture. American Sensations brilliantly succeeds in remapping the volatile and shifting terrain of both national identity and literary history in the mid-nineteenth century."—Amy Kaplan, co-editor of Cultures of United States Imperialism
Author |
: Stuart Ward |
Publisher |
: Manchester University Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2017-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526119629 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526119625 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis British culture and the end of empire by : Stuart Ward
This book is the first major attempt to examine the cultural manifestations of the demise of imperialism as a social and political ideology in post-war Britain. Far from being a matter of indifference or resigned acceptance as is often suggested, the fall of the British Empire came as a profound shock to the British national imagination, and resonated widely in British popular culture. The sheer range of subjects discussed, from the satire boom of the 1960s to the worlds of sport and the arts, demonstrates how profoundly decolonisation was absorbed into the popular consciousness. Offers an extremely novel and provocative interpretation of post-war British cultural history, and opens up a whole new field of enquiry in the history of decolonisation.
Author |
: Johan Hoglund |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 2016-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317045182 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317045181 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis The American Imperial Gothic by : Johan Hoglund
The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.
Author |
: Raymond F. Betts |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415674362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415674360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of Popular Culture by : Raymond F. Betts
This book explores the rapid diffusion and 'hybridization' of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world since the end of World War II: instantaneous communications, widespread consumption in a market-based economy and the visualization of reality. It considers the dominance of American entertainment media and habits of consumption, assessing adaptation and negative reactions to this influence.