Toward an Urban Cultural Studies Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities [Paperback]

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.Introduction PART I: THEORETICAL GROUND 1. Why Urban Cultural Studies? Why Henri Lefebvre? 2. Henri Lefebvre's Recalibrated Marxism: Urban Alienation and Cultural Studies 3. The Work (of Art): Putting Art at the Service of the Urban Part II: TEXTUAL VARIATIONS 4. The Urban Dominant: Everyday Life and the City in Textual Criticism 5. The Iconic-Indexical City:Visions of Place in Urban Films 6. Listening to Urban Rhythms:Soundscapes in Popular Music 7. Representing Digital Spaces: Videogames and the Digital Humanities Conclusionian totality, Fraser skillfully makes the case that collaboration between social scientists and humanists holds the key to understanding our increasingly complex urban society. - Stephen Vilaseca, Associate Professor, Hispanic Studies, Northern Illinois University, USA

Benjamin Fraser is Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, USA.