Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things

by Dick Hebdige

Overview

Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and promotional music videos. He assesses their broad cultural significance and charts their impact on contemporary popular tastes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415007375
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/10/1988
Series:	Comedia
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dick Hebdige

Table of Contents

Introduction; Young Lives; Chapter 1 Hiding in the Light: Youth Surveillance and Display; Chapter 2 Mistaken Identities: Why John Paul Ritchie didn't do it his Way; Taste, Nation and Popular Culture; Chapter 3 Towards a Cartography of Taste 1935—1962; Chapter 4 Object as Image: the Italian Scooter Cycle; Chapter 5 In Poor Taste: Notes on Pop; Living on the Line; Chapter 6 Making do with the “;Nonetheless”: In the Whacky World of Biff; Chapter 7 The Bottom Line on Planet One: Squaring Up to The Face; Postmodernism and “;The Other Side”; Chapter 8 Staking Out the Posts; Chapter 9 Post-Script 1: Vital Strategies; Chapter 10 Post-Script 2: After (the) Word; Chapter 11 Post-Script 3: Space and Boundary; Chapter 12 Post-Script 4: Learning to Live on the Road to Nowhere;

Editorial Reviews

‘At last, a book which explains clearly what post-modernism means ... Detailed, clever, witty, post-modern analysis of popular culture from a writer equally as fascinated by David Byrne, Biff cartoons, The Face, John Berger, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard and James Brown' - Square Peg

‘...for those of us who want to honour Raymond Williams' memory while still, despite ourselves, liking Kylie Minogue, Hiding in the Light is both a stimulating and a comforting read.' - Simon Frith, Media Education Journal

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