Popular Culture

Author : Victoria Kannen,Neil Shyminsky
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781773381428

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The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture by Victoria Kannen,Neil Shyminsky Pdf

An exclusively Canadian textbook, this collection investigates the relationships between identity, geography, and popular culture that are produced and consumed in this sprawling country. Expanding beyond the clichés of friendliness and snow, this text provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Canadian, both nationally and transnationally. Scholars look at historical subjects like Québécois identity and Indigenous self-representation and explore issues in contemporary media, including music, film, television, comic books, video games, and social media. From Drake to the Tragically Hip, Trailer Park Boys to The Amazing Race Canada, and poutine to maple syrup, mainstream icons and trends are studied in the interdisciplinary context of race, gender, sexuality, politics, and patriotism. Contributing to the location of Canadian popular culture, this unique resource will engage students and scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, and Canadian studies. FEATURES - Includes key concepts and theories and a glossary - Engages students with relatable historical and contemporary examples of Canadiana through a breadth of media, including television shows, websites, journals, celebrities, newspapers, literature, comic books, video games, music, and films - Ensures equal representation of a national and transnational Canada, which includes examples of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, with particular attention to geographical intricacies that contain all provinces and territories

Author : Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119140337

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Popular Culture by Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien Pdf

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

Author : Laine Zisman Newman
Publisher : Women’s Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780889616158

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Women and Popular Culture in Canada by Laine Zisman Newman Pdf

The first book of its kind, this volume explores women and non-binary people in popular culture in Canada, with a focus on intersectional analysis of settler colonialism, race, white privilege, ability, and queer representations and experiences in diverse media. The chapters include discussions of film, television, videogames, music, and performance, as well as political events, journalism, social media, fandom, and activism. Throughout this collection, readers are encouraged to think carefully about the role women play in the cultural landscape in Canada as active viewers, creators, and participants. Covering a wide range of topics from historical perspectives to recent events, media, and technologies, this collection acts as an introduction, an archive, and a continuing commitment to lifting the voices and stories of women and popular culture in Canada. This book is a must-read for gender studies and media studies courses that focus on popular culture, Canadian feminism, and Canadian media. FEATURES includes questions for critical thought that stimulate discussion focuses on intersections of race, gender, ability, and sexuality provides contemporary Canadian content from an interdisciplinary and intersectional lens

Author : Carla Freccero
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814726693

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Popular Culture by Carla Freccero Pdf

The concise introduction to the study of popular culture From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.

Author : Raiford Guins,Omayra Zaragoza Cruz
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0761974725

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Popular Culture by Raiford Guins,Omayra Zaragoza Cruz Pdf

"The selection of essays here is outstanding. The Reader is particularly strong in bridging between founding figures and cutting edge work by newer writers."- Henry Jenkins, MIT "An extraordinarily well considered selection of articles and essays, arranged with skill and style." - Charlie Blake, University College NorthamptonPopular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as a product of industry, an intellectual object of inquiry and an integral component of all our lives.The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow. The book contains: Classic writings from all the ′big names′ including Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Frederic Jameson, Dick Hebdige, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy and many more. Contemporary cultural references throughout - this is not simply an historical account. Pieces drawing on diverse national, disciplinary and subdisciplinary contexts. Sensitivity to issues of gender, race and sexuality. This reader is a key resource for students of media and communication studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of the media.

Author : Raymond F. Betts,Lyz Bly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134598403

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A History of Popular Culture by Raymond F. Betts,Lyz Bly Pdf

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.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442217836

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Popular Culture by Marcel Danesi Pdf

Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning.The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students."

Author : Noël Sturgeon
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816548279

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Environmentalism in Popular Culture by Noël Sturgeon Pdf

In this thoughtful and highly readable book, Noël Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts social inequities as “natural” and how our images of “nature” interfere with creating solutions to environmental problems that are just and fair for all. Why is it, she wonders, that environmentalist messages in popular culture so often “naturalize” themes of heroic male violence, suburban nuclear family structures, and U.S. dominance in the world? And what do these patterns of thought mean for how we envision environmental solutions, like “green” businesses, recycling programs, and the protection of threatened species? Although there are other books that examine questions of culture and environment, this is the first book to employ a global feminist environmental justice analysis to focus on how racial inequality, gendered patterns of work, and heteronormative ideas about the family relate to environmental questions. Beginning in the late 1980s and moving to the present day, Sturgeon unpacks a variety of cultural tropes, including ideas about Mother Nature, the purity of the natural, and the allegedly close relationships of indigenous people with the natural world. She investigates the persistence of the “myth of the frontier” and its extension to the frontier of space exploration. She ponders the popularity (and occasional controversy) of penguins (and penguin family values) and questions assumptions about human warfare as “natural.” The book is intended to provoke debates—among college students and graduate students, among their professors, among environmental activists, and among all citizens who are concerned with issues of environmental quality and social equality.

Author : Gary Burns
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118883334

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A Companion to Popular Culture by Gary Burns Pdf

A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field. Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to folklore and from TV to technology Features contributions from established and up-and-coming scholars from a range of disciplines Offers a detailed history of the study of popular culture Balances new perspectives on the politics of culture with in-depth analysis of topics at the forefront of popular culture studies

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136868719

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Understanding Popular Culture by John Fiske Pdf

BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS -- READING FISKE AND UNDERSTANDING THE POPULAR -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1 THE JEANING OF AMERICA -- 2 COMMODITIES AND CULTURE -- 3 PRODUCTIVE PLEASURES -- 4 OFFENSIVE BODIES AND CARNIVAL PLEASURES -- 5 POPULAR TEXTS -- 6 POPULAR DISCRIMINATION -- 7 POLITICS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Author : Ray Broadus Browne,Pat Browne
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0879728213

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The Guide to United States Popular Culture by Ray Broadus Browne,Pat Browne Pdf

"To understand the history and spirit of America, one must know its wars, its laws, and its presidents. To really understand it, however, one must also know its cheeseburgers, its love songs, and its lawn ornaments. The long-awaited Guide to the United States Popular Culture provides a single-volume guide to the landscape of everyday life in the United States. Scholars, students, and researchers will find in it a valuable tool with which to fill in the gaps left by traditional history. All American readers will find in it, one entry at a time, the story of their lives."--Robert Thompson, President, Popular Culture Association. "At long last popular culture may indeed be given its due within the humanities with the publication of The Guide to United States Popular Culture. With its nearly 1600 entries, it promises to be the most comprehensive single-volume source of information about popular culture. The range of subjects and diversity of opinions represented will make this an almost indispensable resource for humanities and popular culture scholars and enthusiasts alike."--Timothy E. Scheurer, President, American Culture Association "The popular culture of the United States is as free-wheeling and complex as the society it animates. To understand it, one needs assistance. Now that explanatory road map is provided in this Guide which charts the movements and people involved and provides a light at the end of the rainbow of dreams and expectations."--Marshall W. Fishwick, Past President, Popular Culture Association Features of The Guide to United States Popular Culture: 1,010 pages 1,600 entries 500 contributors Alphabetic entries Entries range from general topics (golf, film) to specific individuals, items, and events Articles are supplemented by bibliographies and cross references Comprehensive index

Author : Andrew Schopp,Matthew B. Hill
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838642078

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The War on Terror and American Popular Culture by Andrew Schopp,Matthew B. Hill Pdf

The War on Terror and American Popular Culture is a collection of original essays by academics and researchers from around the world that examines the complex interrelation between the Bush administration's "War on Terror" and American popular culture. Written by experts in the fields of literature, film, and cultural studies, this book examines in detail how popular culture reflects concerns and anxieties about the September 11 attacks and the war those attacks generated, how it interrogates the individual and collective impacts that war has wrought, how it might challenge or critique current policy, and how it might reinforce or endorse the war and its sociopolitical paradigms.

Author : Roger Clestin,Eliane Dalmolin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 9056995510

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Popular Culture by Roger Clestin,Eliane Dalmolin Pdf

Author : Carla A. Freccero
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479814039

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Popular Culture by Carla A. Freccero Pdf

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically. Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.

Author : Katie Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317150374

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Disability and Popular Culture by Katie Ellis Pdf

As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number of internationally recognised texts and objects from popular culture, including film, television, magazines and advertising campaigns, children’s toys, music videos, sport and online spaces, to attend to the social and cultural construction of disability. While acknowledging that disability features in popular culture in ways that reinforce stereotypes and stigmatise, Disability and Popular Culture celebrates and complicates the increasing visibility of disability in popular culture, showing how popular culture can focus passion, create community and express defiance in the context of disability and social change. Covering a broad range of concerns that lie at the intersection of disability and cultural studies, including media representation, identity, the beauty myth, aesthetics, ableism, new media and sport, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the critical analysis of popular culture, across disciplines such as disability studies, sociology and cultural and media studies.