Description: The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life.
Review Quotes:
"This is a wide-ranging analysis of how popular culture and everyday life are significant components of national identity. Tim Edensor draws on a fascinating array of materials to explore the changing character of such identity. In short, this is an up-to-date, lively and innovative examination of contemporary 'nations'." --John Urry, Lancaster University
"National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life shimmers with incisive insight after insight. The book, quite simply is a tour de force of cultural analysis." --Cameron McCarthy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "A timely intervention in the recent discussions of national identity." --Sociology "Tim Edensor has managed to produce an imaginative examination of popular culture and national identity -- It is an essential read for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in cultural studies, sociology and media studies. It will also be of interest to a more general readership interested in themes of national identity, popular culture and the nation." --Nations and Nationalism