Providing a comprehensive collection of classic and current papers on popular culture, this volume includes key works from Adorno to Williams, as well as a wide range of international perspectives that engage with the dynamic changes that combine to generate popular culture today.
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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its ...
" The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.
Trash Culture concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics.
5 Gwathmey's Art Despite the pervasiveness of heroic types in popular thought , the predominant heroes of American history have been male and white . The paintings of the Virginia - born artist Robert Gwathmey ( b.1903 ) offer an ...
Opening with a definition of ‘popular culture’, the book embarks on a tour of those cultural forms which have kept the masses entertained, including: Print popular culture from Story Papers and ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ to ...
Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.
The collection is separated into three parts: Visualizing Race (Representational Media), Sounding Race (Soundscape), and Racialization in Place (Theory), each of which considers visual, audio, and geographic sites of racial representations ...
Understanding Popular Culture: Europe from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century
Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.