| Raymond Williams Contributor(s): O'Connor, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 074253099X ISBN-13: 9780742530997 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $119.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: Raymond Williamsa Welsh media critic and a pioneer of cultural studiesbelieved traditional biographies focus on individuals while isolating them from their communities. Alan O'Connor introduces us to Williams and his time period of social change and crisis. Williams, son of a railway worker, would have pursued university studies had World War II not disrupted his plans. The unorthodox intellectual worked outside the university until 1960, his revolutionary media studies emphasizing the interchange between culture and democracy. O'Connor concludes with the same message Williams carried In a period dominated by conservative forces, it is still worthwhile to struggle for small changes. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005010742 |
| Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.83 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Raymond Williams_a Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studies_believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O'Connor looks at Williams and his time period, one of social change and crisis in Wales and England. Williams, the son of a railway worker, would have pursued university studies, an atypical act for a working-class boy, had the Second World War not disrupted his plans. So the unorthodox intellectual executed his work outside the university until 1960, decades after he originally intended to begin his studies. O'Connor then turns to Williams's studies of media, revealing his subject's life-long emphasis on the interchange between culture and democracy. He shows the ways in which these ideas were revolutionary, upsetting conservative thinkers of the time, and concludes with the same message of hope that Williams carried with him daily: In a period dominated by conservative forces, Raymond Williams still thought it worthwhile to struggle for small changes. |
