Readings In Popular Culture

Author : Steven Greenfield,Guy Osborn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134223541

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Readings in Law and Popular Culture by Steven Greenfield,Guy Osborn Pdf

Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as diverse as football-based computer games, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, digital sampling in the music industry, the films of Sidney Lumet, football hooliganism, and Enid Blyton. These topics are linked together through the key thread of the role of, or the absence of, law - therefore providing a snapshot of significant work in the burgeoning field of law and popular culture. Including important theoretical and truly innovative, relevant material, this contemporary text will enliven and inform a legal audience, and will also appeal to a much broader readership of people interested in this highly topical area.

Author : Karin Barber
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X004139405

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Readings in African Popular Culture by Karin Barber Pdf

'Despite the overwhelming reality of economic decline; despite unimaginable poverty; despite wars, malnutrition, disease and political instability, African cultural productivity grows apace: popular literatures, oral narrative and poetry, dance, drama, music and visual art all thrive.' - Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House This collection of essays examines the way in which African popular culture has moved centre stage since the early 1980s. The emphasis is on the verbal rather than the visual, and topics covered include the oral tradition, and women in popular culture. KARIN BARBER is Professor of African Cultural Anthropology at the University of Birmingham Published in association with the International African Institute North America: Indiana University Press

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781770488113

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Pop Culture for Beginners by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

Pop Culture for Beginners promotes reflective engagement with the world around us and provides a set of tools for thinking critically about how meaning is created, reinforced, and circulated. Privileging a semiotic approach, the book’s first part, “The Pop Culture Toolbox,” outlines the development of pop culture studies; explains the semiotic framework; introduces students to a variety of critical lenses including Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory; and then offers an overview of several pop culture “pivot points” including authenticity, convergence culture, intersectionality, intertextuality, and subculture. The book’s second part provides a series of units, prepared in consultation with subject area experts, built around topics central to popular culture studies: television and film, music, comics, gaming, social media, and fandom. Each chapter includes “Your Turn” activities and discussion questions, as well as possible assignments and suggestions for further reading. The unit chapters in part two also include enabling questions as beginning points for thinking critically and sample readings demonstrating relevant scholarly approaches to popular culture; important vocabulary terms throughout are included in a substantive glossary at the end.

Author : Sonia Maasik
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0312136315

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Signs of Life in the U.S.A. by Sonia Maasik Pdf

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349207008

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Readings In Popular Culture by Gary Day Pdf

This is the first book since Roland Barthes' Mythologies to take a comprehensive look at popular culture. The twenty-six essays in this volume, all written by specialists, cover a range of topics from t-shirts to computers. While each essay reflects some aspect of contemporary cultural theory, a number also develop original approaches to questions of whether popular culture is a condition or a representation of experience and how it manages to both resist and reproduce consumer capitalism. Together, these essays present an exciting reinterpretation of popular culture which will appeal to anyone interested in this important subject.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820328393

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

In this new edition of his widely adopted Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction, John Storey has extensively revised the text throughout. Like previous editions, the book presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. New to this edition: Extensively revised, rewritten, and updated Improved and expanded content throughout including a new chapter on psychoanalysis and a new section on post-Marxism and the global postmodern Closer explicit links to the new edition companion reader Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader More illustrative diagrams and images Fully revised, improved, and updated companion web site Ideal for courses in: cultural studies media studies communication studies sociology of culture popular culture visual studies cultural criticism

Author : James Schwoch,Miriam White,Susan Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438419220

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Media Knowledge by James Schwoch,Miriam White,Susan Reilly Pdf

This book calls for a way of reading and responding to the media culture that is more than passive reception. It argues for the fostering of critical citizenship as the key to engaging, debating, and ultimately reconstructing the concepts and beliefs society brings to bear upon popular culture. The authors analyze contemporary media culture, including television news and dramatic programming, advertising, Hollywood film, and discuss the relationships between technology, culture, and society.

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136869266

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Reading the Popular by John Fiske Pdf

This revised edition of a now classic text includes a new introduction by Henry Jenkins, explaining ‘Why Fiske Still Matters’ for today’s students, followed by a discussion between former Fiske students Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray, and Pamela Wilson on the theme of ‘Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular’. Both underline the continuing relevance of this foundational text in the study of popular culture. Beneath the surface of the cultural artifacts that surround us – shopping malls, popular music, the various forms of television – lies a multitude of meanings and ways of using them, not all of them those intended by their designers. In Reading the Popular, John Fiske analyzes these popular "texts" to reveal both their explicit and implicit (and often opposite) meanings and uses, and the social and political dynamics they reflect. Fiske’s "readings" of these cultural phenomena highlight the conflicting responses they evoke: Madonna may be promoted as a "boy toy", but young girls feel empowered by her ability to toy with boys; Chicago’s Sears Tower may be a massive expression of capitalist domination, but it can also allow one to tower over the city. In each case it is the latter option that interests him, for this is where Fiske locates popular culture: it is the point at which people take the goods offered them by industrial capitalism (however oppressive they may seem) and turn them to their own creative, and even subversive, uses. Designed as a companion to Understanding Popular Culture, Reading the Popular gives the lie to theories that portray a mass audience that mindlessly consumes every product it is offered. Fiske’s acute perception and lively wit combine to provide a truly democratic vision of popular culture, one that respects the awareness and the agency of the people who make it.

Author : Raiford Guins,Omayra Zaragoza Cruz
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : John Storey
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820322768

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

This reader is intended as a theoretical, analytical and historical introduction to the study of popular culture within cultural studies. It is divided into seven representative sections. The first six sections each contain a selection of readings from a particular approach to popular culture: culture and civilisation tradition; culturalism; structuralism and post-structuralism; Marxism; feminism; and postmodernism, providing a comprehensive overview and examples of the main theoretical perspectives. The final section contains readings from recent debates within the study of popular culture. Together, these sections chart the theoretical development of the study of popular culture within cultural studies, and provide examples of the analysis of the texts and practices of popular culture within each specific tradition. Each section is introduced, edited and contextualised by John Storey.

Author : Jonathan Silverman,Dean Rader
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781554813797

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The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture by Jonathan Silverman,Dean Rader Pdf

Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to “read” everyday objects and visual texts with basic semiotics. The book shows how texts of all kinds, from a painting to a university building to a pair of sneakers, make complex arguments through their use of signs and symbols, and shows students how to make these arguments in their own essays. This new edition is rich with images, real-world examples, writing and discussion prompts, and examples of academic and student writing. The first part of the book is a rhetoric covering argumentation, research, the writing process, and adapting from high-school to college writing, while the second part explores writing about specific cultural topics. Notes, instruction, and advice about research are woven into the text, with research instruction closely tied to the topic being discussed. New to the updated compact edition are chapters on fashion, sports, and nature and the environment.

Author : Harry Russell Huebel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 0528661744

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Things in the Driver's Seat by Harry Russell Huebel Pdf

Author : Valerie Traub,M. Lindsay Kaplan,Dympna Callaghan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521558190

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Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture by Valerie Traub,M. Lindsay Kaplan,Dympna Callaghan Pdf

How did the events of the early modern period affect the way gender and the self were represented? This collection of essays attempts to respond to this question by analysing a wide spectrum of cultural concerns - humanism, technology, science, law, anatomy, literacy, domesticity, colonialism, erotic practices, and the theatre - in order to delineate the history of subjectivity and its relationship with the postmodern fragmented subject. The scope of this analysis expands the terrain explored by feminist theory, while its feminist focus reveals that the subject is always gendered - although the terms in which gender is conceived and represented change across history. Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture not only explores the representation of gendered subjects, but in its commitment to balancing the productive tensions of methodological diversity, also speaks to contemporary challenges facing feminism.

Author : Michael Petracca,Madeleine Sorapure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Popular culture
ISBN : 0131825453

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Common Culture by Michael Petracca,Madeleine Sorapure Pdf

From Barbie to the Internet, the Simpsons to the malls, this engaging book on pop culture can help readers develop writing skills while reading and thinking about subjects they find inherently interesting. It contains essays addressing pop culture topics along with suggestions for further reading. Topics covered in the essays include advertising, television, popular music, cyberculture, sports, and movies. Because of its several comprehensive indices, this book is an excellent reference work for writers and analysts of popular culture.

Author : Kimberly K. Massey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 076742476X

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Readings in Mass Communication by Kimberly K. Massey Pdf

This reader is designed to supplement any core textbook in Introduction to Mass Communication. The goal of the reader is to help students think more critically about the media. By drawing from a wide variety of sources and political and cultural viewpoints, this collection is predicated on the fact that students learn about the media mainly through the media--by reading or hearing about media in media publications or broadcasts. These articles are drawn mostly from popular and alternative media and take a hard and critical look at the political and social forces that drive media decision making.