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Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday
Ben Highmore (Author)
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Review
Ben Highmore’s Ordinary Lives is a groundbreaking intervention into the burgeoning field of everyday life studies. It takes contemporary cultural studies into some exciting new critical directions [..] Highmore’s book is digressive but always coherent, deeply personal but always scholarly, entertaining and evocative but always rigorous and thought-provoking – Joe Moran, Reader in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
‘”Ordinary Lives”, in its refusal to engage with ‘The Media’, provides a clear and politically important framework for us to use with students to help draw ‘microsketches of ordinary media reception’.’ – POV
About the Author
Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009), Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture (2006), Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (2005), Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (2002) and The Everyday Life Reader (2002).
Review
Ben Highmore’s Ordinary Lives is a groundbreaking intervention into the burgeoning field of everyday life studies. It takes contemporary cultural studies into some exciting new critical directions [..] Highmore’s book is digressive but always coherent, deeply personal but always scholarly, entertaining and evocative but always rigorous and thought-provoking – Joe Moran, Reader in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
‘”Ordinary Lives”, in its refusal to engage with ‘The Media’, provides a clear and politically important framework for us to use with students to help draw ‘microsketches of ordinary media reception’.’ – POV
About the Author
Ben Highmore is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of A Passion for Cultural Studies (2009), Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture (2006), Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (2005), Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (2002) and The Everyday Life Reader (2002).
Hardcover: 208 pages
Publisher: Routledge (October 12, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0415461863
ISBN-13: 9780415461863
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