Research Catalog
Millennium culture
- Title
- Millennium culture / Neil Leach ; photographs by Katja Hock.
- Author
- Leach, Neil.
- Publication
- London : Ellipsis, 1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA589.4 .L422 1999s | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hock, Katja.
- Description
- 127 pages : illustrations; 15 cm
- Summary
- "Threading together commentary on various icons of contemporary society - Diana, the Spice Girls, the Teletubbies, Jerry Springer - Millennium Culture portrays Britain as an enchanted kingdom, an escapist dreamworld pervaded by the spirit of advertising and gripped by a desire for the sublime. Above all, Britain today is pictured as being dominated by a wallpaper culture of surface imagery, and the sublimely huge but ontologically vacant Millennium Dome is read as the perfect emblem for this society of vacuity." "Using the ideas of philosophers and cultural theorists, Millennium Culture seeks to analyse this condition and to examine the values and ideas that underpin British society. But the book is not entirely negative, and seeks to redeem a positive role for the surface image as the site of identification in an increasingly meaningless world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-127).
- ISBN
- 1899858938
- 9781899858934
- 1841660256
- 9781841660257
- OCLC
- ocm44093538
- 44093538
- SCSB-1126153
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library