192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural studies.
Ben Highmore argues that feelings are political and cultural forms that... Read more
- Feeling our Way and Getting in the Mood (An Introduction)
- Cultural Feelings (Some Theoretical Coordinates)
- Morale Work (Experience Feeling Itself)
- Bombsites and Playgrounds (A Wrecked, Indifferent Calm)
- City of Strangers (Qualities of Disappointment)
- Deep Doubts and Exorbitant Hopes (Something is Happening)
- Mood, Generation, Nation (Feelings and Cultural Politics)
- Post Referendum Blues (Postscript)
Biography
Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are The Great Indoors (2014) and Culture (2016). His book The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain is due to be published in 2017.
"Highmore demonstrates a dynamic way to marry theoretical insights with diligent empirical inquiry. Through the empirical chapters, Highmore’s theory comes alive, and becomes felt, in the way cultural feelings are meant to be." - Danielle Hanley, EuropeNow: a journal of research & art
