Overview
This book examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture. Lawler sets the surfer against the backdrop of the negative reactions to it by those groups responsible for enforcing the Puritan discipline, offering a fresh take on the relationship between commercial culture and counterculture.
- | Author: Kristin Lawler
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 210 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0415874890
- | ISBN-13: 9780415874892
