Culture in the Age of Three Worlds (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781859844496)

Over the last half of the twentieth century, culture moved to the foreground of political and intellectual life. Suddenly everyone discovered that culture had been mass produced like Ford's cars; the masses had culture and culture had a mass. Culture was everywhere, no longer the property of the cultured or the cultivated. Radical social movements around the globe invented a politics of culture.

Culture In the Age of Three Worlds is a reflection on this cultural turn which was a fundamental aspect of the age of three worlds, that short half century between 1945 and 1989 when it was imagined that the world was divided into three--the capitalist first world, the communist second world, and the decolonizing third world. Recasting the legacies of British cultural studies and the radical traditions of the American studies movement in a global context, Michael Denning explores the political and intellectual battles over the meanings of culture, addresses the rise of a distinctive 'American ideology, ' and charts the lineaments of the global cultures that emerged as three worlds gave way to one.

Author: Michael Denning
ISBN-10: 1859844499
ISBN-13: 9781859844496
Publisher: Verso
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2004
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.02h x 6.08w x 0.71d