Towards a Genealogy and Typology of Spectacle: Some Comments on Debord

Thesis Eleven

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-68

  Roberts, David ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

aestheticization; festival; sacralization; secularisation; spectacle

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247452007     PISSN: 07255136     EISSN: 14617455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0725513603751005     Document Type: Article

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