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Hyperreality and global culture / Nick Perry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Nick, 1942-
- Series:
- Routledge social futures series.
- Routledge social futures series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture.
- Cultural relations.
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Reality.
- Imagination.
- National characteristics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores a world where the boundaries between reality and representation have become blurred, a world where LA Law is used to train lawyers. Drawing on examples from around the globe, Nick Perry presents a fascinating and entertaining analysis of both familiar objects and situations as well as the more unusual and absurd. Meals served in British pubs, motor-cycle gangs in downtown Tokyo, Australian movies, are just some examples used by the author in his engaging exploration of modern sense of the 'unreal'. Hyperrealities also engages with well known theorists of con
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p.173-186) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-84675-4
- 0-585-44704-7
- 1-280-33289-1
- 0-203-01937-7
- 9780203019375
- OCLC:
- 52422445
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