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Zusatztext "Highmore demonstrates a dynamic way to marry theoretical insights with diligent empirical inquiry. Through the empirical chapters! Highmore's theory comes alive! and becomes felt! in the way cultural feelings are meant to be." - Danielle Hanley! EuropeNow: a journal of research & art Informationen zum Autor Ben Highmore is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex. His most recent books are The Great Indoors (2014) and Culture (2016). His book The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain is due to be published in 2017. Klappentext It is a commonplace to describe epochs in terms of feelings, moods and passions: the 1960s, we are told, swing; the 1950s are cool, austere, and conformist; the 1980s were a greedy decade. Zusammenfassung It is a commonplace to describe epochs in terms of feelings, moods and passions: the 1960s, we are told, swing; the 1950s are cool, austere, and conformist; the 1980s were a greedy decade. Inhaltsverzeichnis Feeling our Way and Getting in the Mood (An Introduction) Cultural Feelings (Some Theoretical Coordinates) Morale Work (Experience Feeling Itself) Bombsites and Playgrounds (A Wrecked, Indifferent Calm) City of Strangers (Qualities of Disappointment) Deep Doubts and Exorbitant Hopes (Something is Happening) Mood, Generation, Nation (Feelings and Cultural Politics) Post Referendum Blues (Postscript)
