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1 online resource (161 pages) |
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Popular Culture and World Politics |
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Popular culture and world politics.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: what/why/how post-communist aesthetics?; What is post-communist aesthetics?; Why post-communist 'aesthetics'?; How does one 'do' post-communist aesthetics?; Where does this sit within the broader literature on world politics, popular culture, and the 'aesthetic' turn?; Note; Bibliography; 2. Restaging the 1989 revolution: television, film, and public spaces; Introduction |
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The contested spaces of the 'first televised revolution': the screen versus the streetWalter Benjamin and the 1989 revolution (I know, he died long before, but please indulge); The 1989 revolution and the technology of film; The revolution between the 'exceptional' and the 'everyday'; Re-staging the 1989 revolution III: memory, theatre, monuments; Conclusion; Note; Bibliography; 3. Erasing communism: industrial and human ruins of post-communist Europe; Neither here nor there: post-industrialism and the disappearance of the 'worker'; A journey through the wasteland of communism |
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StartUp PetrilaPost-Industrial Stories; Photographing the Vitkovice Ironworks; Of Snails and Men: a tragi-comedy; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 4. Building capitalism: consuming desires and the architectures that sustain them; Consuming desires: from shortages to overwhelming consumption; Architectures of consumption I: the seeming 'fragility' of garage architecture; Architectures of consumption II: the seeming 'permanence' of shopping malls and hypermarkets; Architectures of consumption III: the emergence of gated communities and the transformation of public space |
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Bringing the nineteenth-century flâneur into the twenty-first centuryPainting Tirana: a town of post-communist flâneurs; From consumerism to flânerie in Prague; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; 5. The 'aesthetics of violence': Roma/Gypsies visibility and the re-partitioning of the sensible; Anti-Roma violence; An 'aesthetics' of violence: the coming into visibility of post-communist Roma; Koudelka's Gypsies: tolerated marginality; Roma camps versus castles: the horror stories and fairytales of capitalism; Gypsies in Reality TV: the 'other' performs itself |
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Roma rights photography: picturing a 'different' RomaConclusion; Bibliography; 6. The end of 'transitology', the end of 'post'-communism, the end ... ; Note; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern
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Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central
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Popular culture -- Europe, Eastern
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Popular culture -- Europe, Central
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Popular culture
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Post-communism -- Social aspects
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Social conditions
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Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642
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Europe, Central -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003011368
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Central Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315668284 |
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1315668289 |
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