St valentine's day, Fremantle, 2001

Authors

Norman Leslie, Edith Cowan University

Document Type

Journal Article

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Faculty

Faculty of Community Services, Education and Social Sciences

School

School of Communications and Multimedia

RAS ID

713

Comments

Leslie, N. (2001). St Valentine's Day, Fremantle, 2001. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 15(2), 139-140. Available here

Abstract

Popular culture is rarely considered as ‘a spiritual thing or matter’ unless in the negative, as an absence, constituting a moral free zone. However, as all subscribers and readers of Continuum know, this kind of pious righteousness reveals nothing of how popular cultural forms address, articulate and represent spiritual matters. The serendipity of the request for a cover image for this issue of Continuum with Saint Valentine’s Day invited me to reflect on how materialist popular culture negotiates ‘incorporeal or immaterial’ spirituality, and gets away with it without offending (almost) anyone.

DOI

10.1080/713657798