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Megalopolis : contemporary cultural sensibilities

Employing an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the complexities of contemporary urban culture, this work examines a diverse range of cultural expressions that may be considered typical of the 1980s, from retro fashion, to Latinization, to the recycling of religious imagery as kitsch.
Print Book, English, ©1992
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1992
xxi, 112 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780816619986, 9780816619993, 0816619980, 0816619999
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Reach out and touch someone; Lost in space; Holy kitschen: collecting religious junk from the street; Nature morte ; Tupinicopolis: the city of retro-futuristic Indians.