Popular Culture: A User's Guide

Popular Culture: A User's Guide
ISBN-10
111914034X
ISBN-13
9781119140344
Series
Popular Culture
Category
Social Science
Pages
389
Language
English
Published
2017-09-05
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Authors
Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien

Description

Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them. Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic structures that affect media, the politics of pop culture, the role of consumers, subcultures and countercultures, and the construction of social reality Examines the ways in which individuals and societies act as consumers and agents of popular culture

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