Lecture 1: Suez and 'Shiny Barbarism'

Some of you were asking questions about the Suez Crisis in the seminar. Your first stop is to read Dominic Sandbrook's section on the 'war'. If you go to You Tube and enter 'The Other Side of Suez' you will be able to watch a three-part documentary on the crisis. Here is the link:

http://youtu.be/nOSG-mTttzE

As I said in the lecture, Sandbrook's book juxtaposes the mini-narratives of popular culture and the grand narratives of history throughout his text.

Think of the proliferation of American popular culture and commodities, fast food outlets, TV dinners and cop and quiz shows in Britain after the Suez crisis. A coincidence?

Richard There's also been some confusion over the John Storey book. The core reader is 'Culture Studies and the Study of Popular Culture' (Edinburgh University Press. Please check this is the title you buy. It is in LRC, but it is always better to buy a copy.