Time and commodity culture : essays in cultural theory and postmodernity / John Frow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frow, John, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism (Literature).

Culture.

Time.

Commercial products.

Physical Description:

viii, 281 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Summary:

Time and Commodity Culture is a detailed and theoretically sophisticated account of the cultural systems of postmodernity. Through a series of four linked essays on postmodern theory, tourism, gift exchange and commodity exchange, and the social organization of memory, it explores some of the implications of the commodification of culture for the contemporary and postmodern world.

Contents:

What was postmodernism?

Tourism and the semiotics of nostalgia

Gift and commodity

Toute la mémoire du monde : repetition and forgetting.

Notes:

Collection of previously published essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-271) and index.

ISBN:

0198159471

019815948X

OCLC:

36330834