Kristin Lawler

The American Surfer (eBook, PDF)

Radical Culture and Capitalism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture. Lawler sets the surfer against the backdrop of the negative reactions to it by those groups responsible for enforcing the Puritan discipline, offering a fresh take on the relationship between commercial culture and counterculture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136879845
• Artikelnr.: 43820981

Autorenporträt

Kristen Lawler is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the College of Mount Saint Vincent.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Radical: Surf Culture
Image
and Capitalism 2. Island Time: Primitives
Puritans
and Hucksters 3. The Oceanic Feeling: Surfing's Lost Paradise 4. Riders on the Storm: Surfers and the Sixties 5. The Malibu Surfer Problem: Play and the Cultural Politics of the Class Struggle