Street Noises combines the diverse materials of mass culture with literary and archival sources, to produce an innovative and critical re-reading of twentieth-century Paris as the city of the people and of cultural modernity. It concentrates on popular song and opera, cultural theory and records of police surveillance (such as the unpublished archives concerning the sexual mores of sailors in Toulon), sensational weekly magazines (including the weekly Detective Magazine with its remarkable photomontage) and writers of the Academie Goncourt. The author picks out their common realisation of the experience of the city, also showing how the faits divers and the entertainment industries frame the writing of a Benjamin, a Colette or a Genet. Rifkin re-works modern critical theory through these sources, reflecting on its relation to the production of mass cultures.
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Synopsis:
This illustrated study of the sorts of pleasures that Paris can offer and has offered from 1900 to 1940 draws upon cultural studies, popular cultural sources and critical theory to round out its picture of the city.
About the Author:
Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Fine Art in the Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds.
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