The Historical Contexts and Contemporary Uses of Mass Observation - 1930s to the Present

This edited collection examines Mass-Observation as an innovative research organization, a social-movement, and an archival project. It features essays that highlight the research of contemporary scholars and focuses on the thematic interdisciplinary use of materials from both the Mass-Observation Archive and the contemporary Mass Observation Project. In the last two decades, many scholars have used data collected by Mass-Observation to study British society in the interwar, wartime, and early post-war periods. In turn, scholarly analyses of the significance of the organization itself to the study of literature, art, history, sociology, anthropology, and the broader realm of cultural studies has been subsequently undertaken. This volume presents cutting-edge scholarship that uses Mass Observation materials in innovative ways, exploring everyday life, visuality, writing, fashion, music, television, and emotion, among other subjects, in Britain since the 1930s in the process.>

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• Authors: Lucy Curzon, Lucy D Curzon, Benjamin Jones
• Assisted by: Lucy Curzon (Editor), Lucy D. Curzon (Editor), Curzon Lucy D. (Editor), Benjamin Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2024
• EAN: 9781350215757
• ISBN: 978-1-350-21575-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm
• Series: The Mass-Observation Critical Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); History: theory & methods, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history