Highmore Cultural Feelings

Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-136-47465-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural studies.

Ben Highmore argues that patterns of feelings are political and cultural forms that orchestrate our encounters with the world. Its case studies range across twentieth century British culture looking at Home Front morale during the Blitz, the experiences of Caribbean migration in the post-war decades, images of children in desolate urban landscapes, the music of post-punk bands in the late 1970s and early 80s, and more recent ‘state of the nation’ film and television including Our Friends in the North and This is England. It finds its evidence in oral history, in films, photographs, television, novels, in music, policy documents, and journalism. Through these sources, this book tells a vivid and compelling story of our most recent history and argues that the urgent task for a progressive cultural politics will require the changing of moods as well as minds.

Cultural Feelings is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in affect theory, emotion and culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Highmore, Ben

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Feeling our Way and Getting in the Mood (An Introduction)

- Cultural Feelings (Some Theoretical Coordinates)

- Morale Work (Experience Feeling Itself)

- Bombsites and Playgrounds (A Wrecked, Indifferent Calm)

- City of Strangers (Qualities of Disappointment)

- Deep Doubts and Exorbitant Hopes (Something is Happening)

- Mood, Generation, Nation (Feelings and Cultural Politics)

- Post Referendum Blues (Postscript)

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are The Great Indoors (2014) and Culture (2016). His book The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain is due to be published in 2017.