Authors: Richard Hoggart, Andrew Goodwin (Introduction), John Corner
ISBN-13: 9780765804211, ISBN-10: 0765804212
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: 1st Edition
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.
Hoggart has the rare quality of complete intellectual honesty. [The Uses of Literacy] should be read by all those concerned with the nature of modern society.
Introduction to the Transaction Edition | ||
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
I | Who are 'The Working-Classes'? | 1 |
II | Landscape with Figures - A Setting | 13 |
III | 'Them' and 'Us' | 48 |
IV | The 'Real' World of People | 72 |
V | The Full Rich Life | 96 |
VI | Unbending the Springs of Action | 127 |
VII | Invitations to a Candy-Floss World: The Newer Mass Art | 157 |
VIII | The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets | 188 |
IX | Unbent Springs: A Note on a Scepticism Without Tension | 210 |
X | Unbent Springs: A Note on the Uprooted and the Anxious | 224 |
XI | Conclusion | 246 |
Postscript | 269 | |
Notes and References | 285 | |
Bibliography | 310 | |
Index | 315 |