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The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation
1930s to the Present
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eBook - PDF
The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation
1930s to the Present
About this book
The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation embraces new approaches and themes that highlight Mass Observation's long history as an innovative research organization, a social movement, and an archival project. Spanning the period from Mass Observation's inception to the present day, essay authors discuss a wide range of topics including anthropology, history, popular politics, cultural studies, literature, selfhood, emotion, art and visual studies. Indeed, what emerges across this volume is confirmation that engagement with Mass Observation-whether its historical materials or those produced in the last decade-is crucial to understanding the vast array of experiences that make up British life.
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Yes, you can access The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation by Lucy D. Curzon,Benjamin Jones in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Modern British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Historical contexts or contemporary uses? Mass Observation and the politics of continuity Lucy D. Curzon and Be jamin Jones
- 1 Mass Observation, literature and cultural studies Benjamin Jones and Matthew Taunton
- 2 Mass observing feeling Claire Langhamer
- 3 ‘Anyone can paint’: Mass Observation and the history of art Lucy D. Curzon
- 4 Anthropology, MO and a bit of surrealism: Past encounters, future hopes Jeremy MacClancy
- 5 Subjective cameras and ekphrastic writing: The present and absent photograph in Mass Observation Annebella Pollen
- 6 Mass-Observation and popular politics in Worktown Jon Lawrence and David Thackeray
- 7 ‘On receiving your letter, I promptly dreamed you a war dream the next night’: Writing the citizen in Mass-Observation’s dream archive Charlotte Hallahan
- 8 Self-reflexivity, class consciousness and social change in Mass Observation narratives Nick Hubble
- 9 Perforating event and narrative, experience and analysis: Beyond the retro Eighties Lucy Robinson
- Conclusion: Presence and absence in the archive: The in/visibility of Mass Observation writers Rose Lindsey
- Index