Ruling passions : essays on just about everything / Nick Perry ; with a foreword by Ian Wedde.
Ruling passions : essays on just about everything / Nick Perry ; with a foreword by Ian Wedde.
Ruling passions : essays on just about everything / Nick Perry ; with a foreword by Ian Wedde.
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Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
Date
2011.
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N306.0993/3
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English
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230 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Is Everything Enough? -- 1. Sport: Media 5, Rugby 1: Keeping the Score on Media Representations -- 2. Shopping: Six Retailers in Search of a Consumer -- 3. Gambling: Gamblers, Popular Culture and Popular Film -- 4. Watching Television: When British TV was young (and New Zealand TV was...
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Dunedin, N.Z. : Otago University Press, 2011.
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2011.
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"These essays are by one of Australasia's leading media and social science intellectuals. 'Culture' is often seen as somehow elevated above daily life (set in a rarefied realm) or set apart from it (e.g. the anthropological study of cultures other than our own). But for contemporary sociologists and media theorists, culture is better seen as the ma...
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Ruling passions : essays on just about everything / Nick Perry ; with a foreword by Ian Wedde.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-224) and index.
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N306.0993/3
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74Vv7AO0r8eX
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9781877372896 (pbk.)
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306.0993
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991008848499702626
