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National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life.
The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalizatio n upon national identity and culture? This book e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Popular Culture, Everyday Life and the Matrix of National Identity; Theories of nationalism: reductive cultural perspectives; Popular culture and national identity; Everyday life and national identity; Conceptualising identity; The redistribution of national identity; 2 Geography and Landscape: National Places and Spaces; The nation as bounded space; Ideological rural national landscapes; Iconic sites; Sites of popular culture and assembly; Familiar, quotidian landscapes; Dwellingscapes; Homely space; Conclusion.
- 3 Performing National IdentityFormal rituals and invented ceremonies; Popular rituals: sport and carnival; Staging the nation; Everyday performances: popular competencies, embodied habits and synchronised enactions; Conclusion; 4 Material Culture and National Identity; Social relations and object worlds; Commodities and national identity; Material culture and semiotics; Things in place and out of place; The biographies of objects; Automobiles and national car cultures; Conclusion; 5 Representing the Nation: Scottishness and Braveheart; Introducing Braveheart; Scotland in film.
- Battles over BraveheartRecycling images: the tourist industry, heritage and film in Scotland; Geographies of William Wallace; Other representations of Wallace; Performances and rituals: re-presenting Wallace; The reception of Braveheart outside Scotland; Conclusion; 6 Exhibiting National Identity at the Turn of the Millennium; 'Self-Portrait' at the Millennium Dome; The 'Andscape'; Interpretation of the 'Andscape'; Bibliography; Index.