TY - JOUR AU - MAGUIRE, P. J. AB - film studies can also offer useful definitions of culture into a composite role of commentators and protago- models for exploring the visual and site of warring factions. On the other, nists, though in the latter case it is the Williams of Culture and Society narrative pleasures available to the it is an attempt to demonstrate his and The Long Revolution rather than female consumer. Breward also sur- contention that Tar from the arts the Williams of Materialism and Culture veys a variety of different approaches being part of the social superstructure built upon a base of economic activity, or Politics and Letters, not least, one to the study of magazines in the inter- they form a frame upon which all suspects, because the younger Wil- war period, from the economics of publishing to an investigation of the other activities depend, for culture— liams is much more clearly located in the accepted literary tradition of way that national, class, and gender of which the work of artists is the Leavis and other apostles of cul- identities were constructed within a most easily identifiable manifesta- tural/artistic/literary purity. dual rhetoric of conservatism and tion—is the shaping, moral medium for all society's activities, TI - Culture and Consensus: England, Arts and Politics Since 1940 JO - Journal of Design History DO - 10.1093/jdh/9.2.134 DA - 1996-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/culture-and-consensus-england-arts-and-politics-since-1940-vGWXe0s5wl SP - 134 EP - 135 VL - 9 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -