IntroductionRestricted accessIntroductionFirst published January, 1983pp. 4-9Consumer Culture: an Introduction Mike FeatherstonePreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 10-21The Icons of the Marketplace William LeissPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 22-31The Department Store as a Cultural Form David ChaneyPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 32-43Industrialism,Consumerism and Power Zygmunt BaumanPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 44-65'Options - for the way you want to live now',or a Magazine for Superwoman Janice WinshipPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 66-83Critical Theory,Commodities and the Consumer Society Douglas KellnerPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
OtherRestricted accessOtherFirst published January, 1983pp. 85-92The Midlifestyle of 'George and Lynne': Notes on a Popular Strip Mike Featherstone, Mike HepworthPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 93-107Sport and Cultural Reification: From Ritual to Mass Consumption John AltPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 108-122A Backwater Awash: The Australian Experience of Americanisation Richard WhitePreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 123-132The World Cup — A Political Football Justin Wren-Lewis, Alan ClarkePreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Research articleRestricted accessResearch articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 133-141The Meanings in the Music and the Music's in Me: Popular Music as Symbolic Communication George H. LewisPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 142-149Review Articles: Advertising and Consumption Stuart LaingPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 150-156Review Articles: Recent Contributions to the Sociology of Sex John PrattPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 157-162Review Articles: Reading Cinema Andrew TudorPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 163-166Book Reviews: The Soccer Tribe by Desmond Morris,London: Jonathan Cape,1981,pp 320,£12.50 'There has been an extraordinary revival of some of the crudest forms of social Darwinism,with emphasis on the inherent and controlling force of the aggressive Instinct,the territorial imperative,the genetically determined hunter,the lower 'beast' brain and so on. These crude evasions of historical and cultural variation,these even cruder rationalisations of the crises of the imperialist and capitalist social order,have to be patiently analysed and refuted,point by point. (Raymond Williams,1978,p 10).' lan TaylorPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 167-168Book Reviews: Those Radio Times by Susan Briggs,London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson,1981,pp 232,£8.95 Brian TaylorPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 168-170Book Reviews: Crossroads: The Drama of a Soap Opera by Dorothy Hobson,London: Methuen,pp 176,£4.50 1982,Coronation Street BFI TV Monograph No. 13) by Richard Dyer,Christine Geraghty,Marion Jordan,Terry Lovell,Richard Paterson and John Stewart,London: British Film Institute,1981,pp 108,£3.50 (paperback) John RobertsPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 171-172Book Reviews: Fashion and Fetishism by Alison Lurie,London: Heineman,1982,pp 256,£10 and xxiii + 359,$27.50 The Language of Clothes by David Kunzle,New Jersey: Roman and Littlefield,1982,pp £5.95 Ted PolhemusPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 173-174Book Reviews: The Railway Journey: Trains and travel in the Nineteenth Century by Wolfgang Schivelbusch (translated by Anselm Hollo),Oxford,Basil Blackwell,1980,pp 213,£12.00 Charles JedrejPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 175-177Book Reviews: The Problem of Human Needs and the Critique of Civilisation by Patricia Springborg,London: George Allen and Unwin,1981,pp x + 293 £18.00 & $28.50 John GibbinsPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 178-180Book Reviews: Surviving Middle Age by M Hepworth and M Featherstone,Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1982,pp xii + 204,£9.50 and £3.50 Eileen FairhurstPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 180-181Book Reviews: Images of Alcoholism edited by Jim Cook and Mike Lewington,London: Educational Advisory Service,British Film Institute and the Alcohol Education Centre,Maudsley Hospital,1979,pp vi + 82,£1.95 (paperback) Gregory SmithPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 183-184Book Reviews: The Media Machine by John Downing,London: Pluto Press,1980,pp 237,£4.95 (paperback) George D. B. ReidPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 185-187Book Reviews: Thinking Photography by Victor Burgin (ed),London: Macmillan,1982,pp viii + 235,£18.00 and £6.95 Michael ScottPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract
Review articleRestricted accessReview articleFirst published January, 1983pp. 188-189Book Reviews: 1781- 1981 by Bevis Hillier,London: Quartet Books,1981,pp 9 + Roger S. MasonPreview abstractGet AccessAbstract