Christmas, ideology and popular culture:
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2008
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This title is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical contexts of Christmas in the UK, USA and Australia
The invention of the English Christmas / John Storey -- Conspicuous consumption and festive follies : Victorian images of Christmas / Sara M. Dodd -- Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance -- and Santa Claus / George McKay -- Religious controversies over Christmas / Jennifer Rycenga -- Christmas carols / Barry Cooper -- Christmas songs : sentiments and subjectivities / Sheila Whiteley -- The musical underbelly of Christmas / Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Christmas and war / Christine Agius -- Christmas and the media / Tara Brabazon -- Christmas and the movies : frames of mind / John Mundy -- Popular culture and Christmas : a nomad at home / Thom Swiss -- Reflections of a Jewish childhood during Christmas / Gerry Bloustien
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource ([ix], 222 pages)
ISBN:0748631879
9780748631872

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