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Benjamin Fraser
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies [PDF ebook]
Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities

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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.

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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

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

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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 277 ● ISBN 9781137498564 ● File size 2.3 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4992638 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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