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Author : Thomas Hine
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781585679102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Populuxe written by Thomas Hine and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From tailfins and TV dinners, to Barbie dolls and fallout shelters! The look and life of mid Century America"--Cover.
Author : John Brewer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136157670
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Consumption and the World of Goods written by John Brewer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream. The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services. Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services.
Author : Christine Sprengler
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458885
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Screening Nostalgia written by Christine Sprengler and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this fascinating in-depth study of the impact of nostalgia on contemporary American cinema, Christine Sprengler unpicks the history of the concept and explores its significance in theory and practice. She offers a lucid analysis of the development of nostalgia in American society and culture, navigating a path through the key debates and aligning herself with recent attempts to recuperate its critical potential. This journey opens up the myriad permutations of nostalgia across visual and material culture and their interface with cinema, with the 1950s emerging as a privileged moment. Four case studies (Sin City, Far From Heaven, The Aviator and The Good German) analyse the ways in which aspects of visual design such as props, costume and colour contribute to the nostalgic aesthetic, allowing for both critical distance and emotion. Written with verve, style and impressive attention to detail, Screening Nostalgia is an invaluable addition to existing scholarship. It is also essential reading for anyone interested in the ways in which we access the past through cinema." · Pam Cook, Professor Emerita in Film, University of Southampton
Author : Josh Ozersky
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030015125X
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Hamburger written by Josh Ozersky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in hardcover in 2008.
Author : Gregory Bergman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440514860
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book BizzWords written by Gregory Bergman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's language...and then there is the language of business. In today's offices, you're as likely to hear kitchen-sinked or sticker shock as capitalization and balance sheet. With the international marketplace and the prevalence of text messaging, the vocabulary of business is constantly evolving. This evolution has left many a step behind, wondering: Should you blush if your boss tells you to put some pants on it? Could you be fired for frazzing? What's the correct reaction to a bozo explosion? How does a dot snot act around the office? You will find answers to these questions and more in BizzWords, defining the new buzzwords of business. Written in a sophisticated and slightly irreverent style, BizzWords is an engaging guide to today's essential, edgy business terms and expressions.
Author : Sherban Cantacuzino
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern Houses of the World written by Sherban Cantacuzino and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743245067
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Living It Up written by James B. Twitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury isn't just for the rich, says James B. Twitchell. Today you don't need a six-figure income to wear pashmina, drink a limited-edition coffee at Starbucks, or drive a Mercedes home to collapse on the couch in front of a flat-screen plasma TV. In Living It Up, sharp-eyed consumer anthropologist Twitchell takes a witty and insightful look at luxury -- what it is, who defines it, and why we can't seem to get enough of it. In recent years, says Twitchell, luxury spending has grown much faster than overall spending -- and it continues to grow despite the economic recession. Luxury has become such a powerful marketing force that it cuts across every layer of society, spawning a magazine devoted to spas, cashmere bedspreads on sale at Kmart, and a dazzling array of bottled waters. Twitchell says that the democratization of luxury has had a unifying effect on culture. Luxury items tell a story that we want to identify with, and more people than ever aspire to the story of Ralph Lauren's Polo or Patek Philippe. Shopping itself is no longer a chore but a transcendent experience in which we shop not so much for goods as for an identity. Sharply observed and wickedly funny, Living It Up is a revealing and entertaining examination of why we are all part of the cult of luxury.
Author : Thomas Hine
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374531676
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (316 download)
Download or read book The Great Funk written by Thomas Hine and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the author of the beloved Populuxe turns his sights on that most confusing and confused decade of all, the 1970s. Thomas Hine scrutinises the looks and life of this complex era, climbing into the heads (and shoes!) of those who experienced the 1970s, exploring the designs of their homes, the styles of their fashion and the advertisements that set their desires on fire. A brilliantly original, wonderfully lively look at the me decade' through the eyes of the man House & Garden has called 'America's sharpest design critic'.'
Author : Anthony B. Dawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521800167
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Culture of Playgoing in Shakespeare's England written by Anthony B. Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.
Author : Thomas Hine
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0380728532
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager written by Thomas Hine and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-09-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the groundbreaking work, Thomas Hine examines the American teenager as a social invention shaped by the needs of the twentieth century. With intelligence, insight, imagination, and humorm he traces the culture of youth in America-from the spiritual trials of young Puritans and the vision quests of Native Americans to the media-blitzed consumerism of contempory thirteen-to-nineteen -year-olds. The resulting study is a glorious appreciation of youth that challenges us to confront our sterotypesm, rethink our expectations, and consider anew the lives of those individuals who are blessing, our bane, and our future.
Author : Anne E. Gorsuch
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253009499
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Socialist Sixties written by Anne E. Gorsuch and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A very engaging collection of essays that adds much to an evolving literature on the social history of the Soviet Union and broader socialist societies.” —Choice The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second World (the Soviet Union, East European countries, and Cuba) are the springboard for exploring global interconnections and cultural cross-pollination between communist and capitalist countries and within the communist world. Themes explored include flows of people and media; the emergence of a flourishing youth culture; sharing of songs, films, and personal experiences through tourism and international festivals; and the rise of a socialist consumer culture and an esthetics of modernity. Challenging traditional categories of analysis and periodization, this book brings the sixties problematic to Soviet studies while introducing the socialist experience into scholarly conversations traditionally dominated by First World perspectives.
Author : Tom McCarthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300110383
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Auto Mania written by Tom McCarthy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth-century American experience with the automobile has much to tell us about the relationship between consumer capitalism and the environment, Tom McCarthy contends. In Auto Mania he presents the first environmental history of the automobile that shows how consumer desire (and manufacturer decisions) created impacts across the product lifecycle--from raw material extraction to manufacturing to consumer use to disposal. From the provocative public antics of young millionaires who owned the first cars early in the twentieth century to the SUV craze of the 1990s, Auto Mania explores developments that touched the environment. Along the way McCarthy examines how Henry Ford’s fetish for waste reduction tempered the environmental impacts of Model T mass production; how Elvis Presley’s widely shared postwar desire for Cadillacs made matters worse; how the 1970s energy crisis hurt small cars; and why baby boomers ignored worries about global warming. McCarthy shows that problems were recognized early. The difficulty was addressing them, a matter less of doing scientific research and educating the public than implementing solutions through America’s market economy and democratic government. Consumer and producer interests have rarely aligned in helpful ways, and automakers and consumers have made powerful opponents of regulation. The result has been a mixed record of environmental reform with troubling prospects for the future.
Author : Robert Harling
Publisher : Penguin Putnam
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Modern Furniture and Decoration written by Robert Harling and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1971 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A number of beautiful rooms, superbly decorated, are pictured and described by the editor of House and Garden, London. International representation.
Author : Thomas Hine
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429924152
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Great Funk written by Thomas Hine and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixties, as the nation anticipated the conquest of space, the defeat of poverty, and an end to injustice at home and abroad, no goal seemed beyond America's reach. Then the seventies arrived-bringing oil shocks and gas lines, the disgrace and resignation of a president, defeat in Vietnam, terrorism at the 1972 Munich Olympics, urban squalor, bizarre crimes, high prices, and a bad economy. The country fell into a great funk. But when things fall apart, you can take the fragments and make something fresh. Avocado kitchens and Earth Shoes may have been ugly, but they signaled new modes of seeing and being. The first generation to see Earth from space found ways to make life's everyday routines-eating, keeping warm, taking out the trash-meaningful, both personally and globally. And many decided to reinvent themselves. In Populuxe, a "textbook of consumerism in the Push Button Age" (Alan J. Adler, Los Angeles Times), Thomas Hine scrutinized the looks and life of the 1950s and 1960s, revealing the hopes and fears expressed in that era's design. In the same way, The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that shaped our lives. Hine gets into the shoes and heads of those who experienced the seventies-exploring their homes, feeling the beat of their music, and scanning the ads that incited their desires. But The Great Funk is more than a lavish catalogue of seventies culture: it's a smart, informed, lively look at the "Me decade" through the eyes of the man House & Garden called "America's sharpest design critic."
Author : Benjamin D. Lisle
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249224
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Modern Coliseum written by Benjamin D. Lisle and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Modern Coliseum, Benjamin D. Lisle tracks changes in stadium design and culture since World War II. Featuring over seventy-five images documenting the transformation of the American stadium over time, Modern Coliseum will be of interest to a variety of readers, from urban and architectural historians to sports fans.
Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719052743
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Consumers and Luxury written by Maxine Berg and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume charts the rise of consumer culture in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. Essays are included on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain. Themes discussed include art markets, collecting and display, and are set alongside those of value and luxury.
Author : Barbara Plumb
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Houses Architects Live in written by Barbara Plumb and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1978 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
