Hyperreality and Global Culture

by Nicholas Perry

Overview

This book explores a world where the boundaries between reality and representation have become blurred, a world where LA Law is used to train lawyers.
Drawing on examples from around the globe, Nick Perry presents a fascinating and entertaining analysis of both familiar objects and situations as well as the more unusual and absurd. Meals served in British pubs, motor-cycle gangs in downtown Tokyo, Australian movies, are just some examples used by the author in his engaging exploration of modern sense of the 'unreal'.
Hyperrealities also engages with well known theorists of contemporary culture, from Baudrillard and Umberto Eco to Jameson and Sartre.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415105156
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/28/1998
Series:	Social Futures
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Nick Perry is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland. Recent publications include The Dominion of Signs (1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Antipodean Camp; Chapter 2 Am I Rite? Or Am I Write? Or Am I Right?; Chapter 3 Post-Pictures And Ec(H)O Effects; Chapter 4 On First Buying Into Munich's Bmw 325iA; Chapter 5 The Emporium Of Signs; Chapter 6 Indecent Exposures; Chapter 7 Dead Men and New Shoes; Chapter 8 Travelling Theory/Nomadic Theorizing;

Editorial Reviews

Explores a world where boundaries between reality and representation have become blurred, a world where fictional dramas on TV are used as teaching aids, and where a company promotes itself by advertising an imaginary product. Draws on examples from around the world to analyze both familiar objects and situations as well as the more unusual and absurd manifestations of a modern sense of the unreal. For students in media and cultural studies, as well as sociology and social theory. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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