Beautiful Things by McKee, Alan

Beautiful Things (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405131902)

Vendor: Alan McKee
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Format: Hardcover
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$96.95
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Beautiful Things by McKee, Alan

Beautiful Things

$96.95
Beautiful Things by McKee, Alan

Beautiful Things

$96.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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This is an innovative book that addresses the question of how consumers make decisions about what is good and what is bad in popular culture.

  • An entertaining and informative guide to the range of aesthetic criteria that goes into judging mass culture's most celebrated texts and objects - from Batman to motor bikes, and pop stars to internet pornography
  • Brings together a series of accessible and engaging essays written by connoisseurs of various areas of popular culture
  • Tackles the core question of how consumers make decisions about what is good popular culture and what is bad popular culture
  • Offers an entertaining and educative read for academic readers as well as purveyors of culture; moving beyond a 'greatest hits' list of popular culture to debate broader issues.


Author: Alan McKee
ISBN-10: 140513190X
ISBN-13: 9781405131902
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.34w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 32
By Alan McKee
By Alan McKee
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Alan McKee is Associate Professor of Creative Industries at Queensland University of Technology. He is the author of Textual Analysis: A Beginner's Guide (2003) and The Public Sphere: An Introduction (2005).

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