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A revised and fully updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible introduction to the range of theories and methods which have been used to study contemporary popular culture. Doing this, it also provides a map of the development of cultural studies through discussion of its most influential approaches. Organised around a series of case studies, each chapter focuses on a different media form and presents a critical overview of the methodology for the actual study of popular culture. Individual chapters cover topics such as television, fiction, film, newspapers and magazines, popular music, consumption (television, fan culture and shopping), and the culture of globalisation.For students new to the field, the book provides instantly usable theories and methods; for those more familiar with the procedures and politics of cultural studies, the book provides a succinct and accessible overview.The third edition has been
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press; 3rd edition (May 31, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 074864038X
ISBN-13: 978-0748640386
Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 0.5 x 5.4 inches
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Cultural Studies and the Study of Popular Culture Media and Cultural Studies (KeyWorks in Cultural Studies) The Wedding of the Dead: Ritual, Poetics, and Popular Culture in Transylvania (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) Popular American Recording Pioneers: 1895-1925 (Haworth Popular Culture) Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture (Critical Cultural Communication) Johann Strauss and Vienna: Operetta and the Politics of Popular Culture (Cambridge Studies in Opera) The Bloomsbury Introduction to Adaptation Studies: Adapting the Canon in Film, TV, Novels and Popular Culture Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860 (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology) 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors: Biographical Sketches and Bibliographies (Popular Authors (Hardcover)) Who Owns the Past? Cultural Policy, Cultural Property, and the Law (The Public Life of the Arts) Making a Nation, Breaking a Nation: Literature and Cultural Politics in Yugoslavia (Cultural Memory in the Present) Edinburgh: A Cultural History (Interlink Cultural Histories) (Cities of the Imagination) Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times (Critical Cultural Communication) Dialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia: Glossary (Handbook of Oriental Studies/Handbuch Der Orientalistik) (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East) Facebook and Philosophy: What's on Your Mind? (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Triumph of the Fatherland: German Unification and the Marginalization of Women (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences (Television and Popular Culture) Star Trek and Philosophy: The Wrath of Kant (Popular Culture and Philosophy) The Princess Bride and Philosophy: Inconceivable! (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Power in Print: Popular Publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905
