Product Description

This book has been brought right up-to-date to include current issues such as ID cards and environmental concerns; illustrated with around fifty photographs this book analyzes contemporary British identity.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #374334 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

From the Back Cover

In British Cultural Identities Mike Storry and Peter Childs assess the degree to which being British impinges on the identity of the many people who live in Britain. They analyse contemporary British identity through the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today. Using examples from contemporary and popular culture, each chapter covers one of seven intersecting themes:

• place and environment
• education, work and leisure
• gender, sex and the family
• youth culture and style
• class and politics
• ethnicity and language
• religion and heritage.

This new edition is fully updated to include environmental concerns, devolution, the infantilization of culture, binge-drinking, reality TV, 7/7 and terrorism, and the increasing shift from a literate to a visual culture.

About the Author
Mike Storry was Senior Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University and is now retired. He co-edited the Encyclopaedia of Contemporary British Culture with Peter Childs.

Peter Childs is Principal Lecturer in English at the University of Gloucestershire, author of 'Modernism' and editor of 'Post-colonial Theory and English Literature'.

Customer Reviews

very interesting and useful
this book is very easy to read and interesting. it also has exercises. i use it for my a level communication studies course, but it is presented in such a way that anyone can read it who is interested in the british identity.