Main entry:

Hoggart, Richard, 1918-2014.

Title & Author:

The uses of literacy / Richard Hoggart ; introduction by Andrew Goodwin ; with a new postscript by John Corner.

Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, ©1998.

Description:

xliii, 320 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Classics in communication and mass culture series

Notes:
Originally published: 1992.
"Originally published in 1957 by Essential Books Inc. 'Postscript' originally appeared in Media, Culture and Socirty [sic], vol. 13, no. 2, April 1991"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-314) and index.
I. Who are 'The Working-Classes'? -- II. Landscape with Figures -- A Setting -- III. 'Them' and 'Us' -- IV. The 'Real' World of People -- V. The Full Rich Life -- VI. Unbending the Springs of Action -- VII. Invitations to a Candy-Floss World: The Newer Mass Art -- VIII. The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets -- IX. Unbent Springs: A Note on a Scepticism Without Tension -- X. Unbent Springs: A Note on the Uprooted and the Anxious -- XI. Conclusion.

Summary:

"This pioneering work examines how mass media changed the lives and values of the English working class. Mixing personal memoir with social history and cultural critique, Hoggart's approaches to cultural analysis do not hide the author behind the mask of objective social scientific technique." "In the introduction to the 1992 edition of The Uses of Literacy, Andrew Goodwin defines Hoggart's place among contending schools of English cultural criticism and points out the prescience of his analysis for developments in England over the past thirty years. The new postscript by John Corner begins with a discussion of Hoggart's contribution to the British cultural debate and concludes with an interview in which Hoggart comments on the origins of The Uses of Literacy, the founding of the Birmingham Centre, the relationship between the broadcasting debates of the early 1960s and those of today, and on other questions of cultural change and cultural analysis. This volume will be both beneficial to as well as enjoyed by cultural historians, communications specialists, media scholars, and sociologists."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0765804212 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780765804211 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Popular culture Great Britain History 20th century.
Working class Great Britain History 20th century.
Mass media Great Britain History 20th century.
Literacy Great Britain History 20th century.
Médias Grande-Bretagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Civilization.
Literacy.
Mass media.
Popular culture.
Working class.
Great Britain Civilization 20th century.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 20e siècle.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Classics in communication and mass culture series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284659
Call No.: BIB 223744
Status: Available