The eloquence of the vulgar : language, cinema, and the politics of culture / Colin MacCabe.

By:

MacCabe, Colin

Contributor(s):

British Film Institute

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : BFI Publishing, 1999.Description: viii, 184 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0851706770
0851706789 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.44 MAC

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	306.44 MAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000195900

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In The Eloquence of the Vulgar, the distinguished academic Colin MacCabe reflects on cultural change from Shakespeare to Derek Jarman, on the institutional forms of knowledge, on the links between popular and elite art, and on the role of the intellectual in contemporary life.

A radical argument emerges from the book's diverse concerns. Cinema and television - the new and democratic art forms of the twentieth century - demand a fundamental rethinking of our concepts of language and culture. What is at stake is the very idea of a liberal and humane education.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Revenge of the author
the linguistics of writing
righting English, or does spelling matter?
defining popular culture
abusing self and others - puritan accounts of Shakespearian stage
death of a nation
television in the early sixties
a post-National Cinema: a consideration of Derek Jarman's "The Tempest" and "Edward II"
Frederic Jameson
James Snead
Gayatri SPivak
on the eloquence of the vulgar
cultural studies and English
desicions

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Colin MacCabe has been professor of English and the University of Pittsburgh since 1985. In 1998 he also took up a Chair of English at the University of Exeter. He worked for 13 years at the British Film Institute, first as Head of Production (1985-9) and then as Head of Research (1989-98).