Culture unbound [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization and everyday life in Sweden / / Tom O'Dell
| Culture unbound [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization and everyday life in Sweden / / Tom O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 948.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Teenagers - Sweden - Attitudes
Public opinion - Sweden |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 91-85509-52-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Telling Tales of DifferenceThe Art of Forgetting and its Significance; 3. The Othering America: Proximities, Tensions, and Moving Targets; The Emigration Threat; Maja-Lisa and the Narrative Weave; An Other Time; Caught in the Reflection; The Allegorical America; Cultural Discontinuity in the Continuous Space; The Centrality of the Periphery; 4. A Path of its Own: the American Car and the Pyramid of Dreams; The Material World; Consumption: the Art of Choosing; Cadillac and the Class of its Own; The Aesthetic Chasm between Blood and Action
Behind the Car: Swedish Modern, The Aesthetics of a ModernityNew Ideas and Rewrapped Forms; Swedish and American Identities: The Aesthetics of Alternate Modernities; Visions of Gray, Pyramids of Chrome; Disjuncture in the Transnational Flow; Foreigners in the Folk Home; Freedom of the Road, Swedish Style; The Invasion of Jönköping; Myth and Reality; Fences, Trophies, and Mirrors; Cruising the Nineties; The Contextual Difference; 5. Peace, Love, and Imperialism: Sideswiped by the Sixties; Disposable Culture; Looking Out; Boiling Points in the Transnational; Split Image Making Flags and Burning FlagsThe Banishment of the Swedish Flag; Flags, Peoples, and Nations: Subtle Differences; Marching for the Nation and the World; Uneasy Riders; Glocal Familiarity; Internationally National; 6. Culture Unbound: Defining the Doors of Perception; Contesting Modernity; The Tribe; The Experience; The Inner Peace; The Freedom; Positions in the Here and There; Another Place, Another Time; Shaping Things to Come; Modernizing the Nation or Americanizing Modernity?; Notes; Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453244803321 |
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| Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, c1997 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Culture unbound [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization and everyday life in Sweden / / Tom O'Dell
| Culture unbound [[electronic resource] ] : Americanization and everyday life in Sweden / / Tom O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, c1997 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 948.5 |
| Soggetto topico |
Teenagers - Sweden - Attitudes
Public opinion - Sweden |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 91-85509-52-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Telling Tales of DifferenceThe Art of Forgetting and its Significance; 3. The Othering America: Proximities, Tensions, and Moving Targets; The Emigration Threat; Maja-Lisa and the Narrative Weave; An Other Time; Caught in the Reflection; The Allegorical America; Cultural Discontinuity in the Continuous Space; The Centrality of the Periphery; 4. A Path of its Own: the American Car and the Pyramid of Dreams; The Material World; Consumption: the Art of Choosing; Cadillac and the Class of its Own; The Aesthetic Chasm between Blood and Action
Behind the Car: Swedish Modern, The Aesthetics of a ModernityNew Ideas and Rewrapped Forms; Swedish and American Identities: The Aesthetics of Alternate Modernities; Visions of Gray, Pyramids of Chrome; Disjuncture in the Transnational Flow; Foreigners in the Folk Home; Freedom of the Road, Swedish Style; The Invasion of Jönköping; Myth and Reality; Fences, Trophies, and Mirrors; Cruising the Nineties; The Contextual Difference; 5. Peace, Love, and Imperialism: Sideswiped by the Sixties; Disposable Culture; Looking Out; Boiling Points in the Transnational; Split Image Making Flags and Burning FlagsThe Banishment of the Swedish Flag; Flags, Peoples, and Nations: Subtle Differences; Marching for the Nation and the World; Uneasy Riders; Glocal Familiarity; Internationally National; 6. Culture Unbound: Defining the Doors of Perception; Contesting Modernity; The Tribe; The Experience; The Inner Peace; The Freedom; Positions in the Here and There; Another Place, Another Time; Shaping Things to Come; Modernizing the Nation or Americanizing Modernity?; Notes; Bibliography |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910528266203321 |
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| Lund, Sweden, : Nordic Academic Press, c1997 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spas [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses / / Tom O'Dell
| Spas [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses / / Tom O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lund, : Nordic Academic Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.3 |
| Soggetto topico | Health resorts |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 91-85509-81-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Spas; The cultural economy; The rise of the ephemeral; The spas; The organization of the book; 2. Spas and the Shifting Context of Conditional Hospitality; Hospitality: rights and obligations; Private spaces and ulterior motives; Hospital -ity; Leisure and the opening of hospitable spaces; Commercializing hospitality; Demise and rebirth; 3. Magic, Ritual, and the Mass Production of Serenity; A general theory of magic; Profane openings into the realm of rejuvenation; Promising the impossible?; The materiality of spell-casting: making sanctuaries
Magical rites and production ex nihiloFloating rites; Magical representations; But is it really magic?; 4. Spa Sensibilities; Emotion, culture, and corporeality; Material culture and sensual communication; Organizational space and mobile bodies; Hospitality and invisibility; 5. Bringing the Spa Home; Sensescaping the home; More than hygiene; Bigger, bubblier, and better; Back to nature; Enter the stranger; Notes; References |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463882403321 |
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| Lund, : Nordic Academic Press, c2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Spas [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses / / Tom O'Dell
| Spas [[electronic resource] ] : the cultural economy of hospitality, magic and the senses / / Tom O'Dell |
| Autore | O'Dell Tom |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lund, : Nordic Academic Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (161 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.3 |
| Soggetto topico | Health resorts |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 91-85509-81-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Spas; The cultural economy; The rise of the ephemeral; The spas; The organization of the book; 2. Spas and the Shifting Context of Conditional Hospitality; Hospitality: rights and obligations; Private spaces and ulterior motives; Hospital -ity; Leisure and the opening of hospitable spaces; Commercializing hospitality; Demise and rebirth; 3. Magic, Ritual, and the Mass Production of Serenity; A general theory of magic; Profane openings into the realm of rejuvenation; Promising the impossible?; The materiality of spell-casting: making sanctuaries
Magical rites and production ex nihiloFloating rites; Magical representations; But is it really magic?; 4. Spa Sensibilities; Emotion, culture, and corporeality; Material culture and sensual communication; Organizational space and mobile bodies; Hospitality and invisibility; 5. Bringing the Spa Home; Sensescaping the home; More than hygiene; Bigger, bubblier, and better; Back to nature; Enter the stranger; Notes; References |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910531548303321 |
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| Lund, : Nordic Academic Press, c2010 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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