Rise of the Spectacular: America in the 1950s

by John Hannigan

Book Overview

In this prequel to Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis (1998), his acclaimed book about the post-industrial city as a site of theming, branding and simulated spaces, sociologist John Hannigan travels back in time to the 1950s. Unfairly stereotyped as 'the tranquillized decade', America at mid-century hosted an escalating proliferation and conjunction of 'spectacular' events, spaces, and technologies.

Spectacularization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036790280X
• ISBN13: 9780367902803
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"