Title & Author:

Enterprise and heritage : crosscurrents of national culture / edited by John Corner and Sylvia Harvey.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

Description:

ix, 271 pages ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-263) and index.
Introduction : Great Britain limited / John Corner and Sylvia Harvey -- Tradition and translation : national culture in its global context / Kevin Robins -- Mediating tradition and modernity : the heritage/enterprise couplet / John Corner and Sylvia Harvey -- Where horses shit a hundred sparrows feed : Docklands and East London during the Thatcher years / Bill Schwartz -- Enterprise and heritage in the dock / Adrian Mellor -- The old and new worlds of information technology in Britain / Maureen McNeil -- The age of leisure / Ken Worpole -- 'Up where you belong' : Hollywood images of big business in the 1980s / Judith Williamson -- Commerce and culture / Robert Hewison -- Over our shoulders : nostalgic screen fictions for the 1980s / Tana Wollen -- Echoes of empire : towards a politics of representation / Yasmin Ali -- Re-imagining the city / Franco Bianchini and Hermann Schwengel.

Summary:

Using case studies, commentary and critique, the contributors discuss the importance of the two concepts "enterprise" and "heritage" in British social and cultural life, with examples from film, television, literature, urban planning, architecture and tourism.

Resources:
1991.
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415047021
9780415047029
041504703X (pbk.)
9780415047036 (pbk.)
9780203991947
020399194X

Subject:

Cultural property Protection Economic aspects Great Britain.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration Economic aspects Great Britain.
Heritage tourism Great Britain.
Arts Great Britain Marketing.
Historic sites conservation & restoration
Historic sites economic aspects
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration Aspect économique Grande-Bretagne.
Tourisme culturel Grande-Bretagne.
Arts Marketing.
Cultural policy.
Cultural property Protection Economic aspects.
Heritage tourism.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration Economic aspects.
Traditie.
Sociale verandering.
Patrimoine culturel Protection Aspect économique Grande-Bretagne.
Sites historiques Conservation et restauration Aspect économique Grande-Bretagne.
Art Commercialisation Grande-Bretagne.
Great Britain Cultural policy History 20th century.
United Kingdom
Great Britain.
Politique culturelle Grande-Bretagne 20e siècle.
Culture History
Social Policy.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Corner, John, 1943-
Harvey, Sylvia.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 65002
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:91-B2163
Status: Available