Australian Popular Culture

Australian Popular Culture
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 0521466679
ISBN-13 : 9780521466677
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Book Synopsis Australian Popular Culture by : Ian Craven

Download or read book Australian Popular Culture written by Ian Craven and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's leisure culture is legendary, and as millions of British viewers of Neighbours, fans of Yothu Yindi or drinkers of Castlemaine XXXX would attest, Australian popular culture is popular outside of Australia. Australian Popular Culture is an exciting collection of essays bringing together new perspectives on the nature and meaning of a nation's changing life. The collection also explores the idea of popular culture at large. Leading authors represent a range of approaches, backgrounds and fields to explore subjects of wide interest within the categories of 'the everyday', 'the mass media' and 'critical theory'. Chapters are devoted to the Aussie Back Yard; Vegemite; postage stamps; Australian Rules football; the introduction of television; Crocodile Dundee; The Lindy Chamberlain Affair; Spycatcher; Domesticity, leisure and love and Postmodernism and Australian Culture.


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