Cultural Analysis

This book represents a distinctive approach to cultural analysis, using multi-dimensional methods for addressing issues of public interest. The approach, which deploys Jim McGuigan’s original concept of the cultural public sphere, is demonstrated in several case studies, including:

• Celebrity death
• Festivals and urban regeneration
• Race and multicultural controversy
• Popular television (for instance, Little Britain and The Apprentice)
• Social significance of the all-purpose mobile communication device in a privatized and individualized way of life
• Riskiness and uncertainty at both the levels of environmental politics and working life in the creative and media industries