| Culture in the Age of Three Worlds Contributor(s): Denning, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1859844499 ISBN-13: 9781859844496 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2004 Annotation: Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the property of an elite, the masses had a culture and culture had a mass. Accordingly, the study of culture and the critique of culture became an increasingly central part of political and intellectual life--the cultural turn, as it came to be known in the humanities and social sciences. This book is a product of and a reflection on that cultural turn, which Michael Denning argues was a fundamental aspect of the age of three worlds, that short half-century (1945-1989) when it was imagined that the world was divided into three--the capitalist first world, the communist second world, and the decolonizing third world. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Denning analyses the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture, addresses the rise of a distinctive "American ideology" based on this short "American century, " and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Customs & Traditions - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 306.071 |
| LCCN: 2003025291 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.08" W x 8.02" (0.93 lbs) 290 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Over the last half of the twentieth century, culture moved to the foreground of political and intellectual life. Suddenly everyone discovered that culture had been mass produced like Ford's cars; the masses had culture and culture had a mass. Culture was everywhere, no longer the property of the cultured or the cultivated. Radical social movements around the globe invented a politics of culture. Culture In the Age of Three Worlds is a reflection on this cultural turn which was a fundamental aspect of the age of three worlds, that short half century between 1945 and 1989 when it was imagined that the world was divided into three--the capitalist first world, the communist second world, and the decolonizing third world. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Michael Denning explores the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture, addresses the rise of a distinctive 'American ideology, ' and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one. |