| Description |
1 online resource (ix unnumbered pages, 222 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index. |
| Summary |
How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This title is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical contexts of Christmas in the UK, USA and Australia. |
| Contents |
The invention of the English Christmas / John Storey -- Conspicuous consumption and festive follies : Victorian images of Christmas / Sara M. Dodd -- Consumption, Coca-colonisation, cultural resistance -- and Santa Claus / George McKay -- Religious controversies over Christmas / Jennifer Rycenga -- Christmas carols / Barry Cooper -- Christmas songs : sentiments and subjectivities / Sheila Whiteley -- The musical underbelly of Christmas / Freya Jarman-Ivens -- Christmas and war / Christine Agius -- Christmas and the media / Tara Brabazon -- Christmas and the movies : frames of mind / John Mundy -- Popular culture and Christmas : a nomad at home / Thom Swiss -- Reflections of a Jewish childhood during Christmas / Gerry Bloustien. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christmas in popular culture.
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Christmas in popular culture. |
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Christmas -- Sociological aspects.
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Christmas. |
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Christmas -- Political aspects.
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Christmas in motion pictures.
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Christmas in motion pictures. |
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Carols, English.
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Carols, English. |
| Genre/Form |
Carols, English.
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| Subject |
Christmas shopping.
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Christmas shopping. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Whiteley, Sheila, 1941-2015, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Christmas, ideology and popular culture. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2008 0748628088 9780748628087 (OCoLC)192027533 |
| ISBN |
0748631879 (electronic book) |
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9780748631872 (electronic book) |
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1281785792 |
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9781281785794 |
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0748628096 (Paper) |
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0748628088 (Cloth) |
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9780748628087 (hardback) |
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9780748628094 (paperback) |
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0748628088 |
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9780748628087 |
| Standard No. |
9780748628087 |
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