The Making Of English Popular Culture

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317519676

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The Making of English Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes that accompanied the industrial revolution. Particularly significant are the technological changes that made the production of new forms of culture possible and the concentration of people in urban areas that created significant audiences for this new culture. Consisting of fourteen original chapters that cover diverse topics ranging from seaside holidays and the invention of Christmas tradition, to advertising, music and popular fiction, the collection aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between culture and power, as explored through areas such as ‘race’, ethnicity, class, sexuality and gender. It also aims to encourage within cultural studies a renewed historical sense when engaging critically with popular culture by exploring the historical conditions surrounding the existence of popular texts and practices. Written in a highly accessible style The Making of English Popular Culture is an ideal text for undergraduates studying cultural and media studies, literary studies, cultural history and visual culture.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003853930

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

In this tenth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition: updated throughout with contemporary examples of popular culture a chapter called 'Culture and nature', which includes sections on culture in nature, the Anthropocene, the Capitalocene, and popular culture and climate change updated student resources at routledgelearning.com/culturaltheoryandpopularculture This new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.

Author : Matthew Dimmock,Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0754665801

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Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England by Matthew Dimmock,Andrew Hadfield Pdf

Now in its third edition, Peter Burke's 1978 book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.

Author : Victoria Kannen,Neil Shyminsky
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,8 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 : Raymond F. Betts
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415221277

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A History of Popular Culture by Raymond F. Betts Pdf

This informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the World War II. Raymond Betts considers the rapid diffusion and "hybridization" of popular culture as the result of three conditions of the world

Author : Anna Malinowska,Karolina Lebek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317219132

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Materiality and Popular Culture by Anna Malinowska,Karolina Lebek Pdf

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular practices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our co-existence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000295177

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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture by John Storey Pdf

In this ninth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines. Retaining the accessible approach of previous editions and using appropriate examples from the texts and practices of popular culture, this new edition remains a key introduction to the area. New to this edition: updated throughout with contemporary examples of popular culture revised and expanded sections on Richard Hoggart and Utopian Marxism brand new discussions on Black Lives Matter and intersectionality updated student resources at www.routledge.com/cw/storey This new edition remains essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, media studies, communication studies, the sociology of culture, popular culture and other related subjects.

Author : Arno Görgen,German Alfonso Nunez,Heiner Fangerau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319906775

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Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine by Arno Görgen,German Alfonso Nunez,Heiner Fangerau Pdf

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspects of this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production: After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a variety of disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies. The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use of biomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articles from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook introduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchers alike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed at being a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in this somewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine.

Author : Philip Connell,Nigel Leask
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521880121

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Romanticism and Popular Culture in Britain and Ireland by Philip Connell,Nigel Leask Pdf

An edited collection examining the construction of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101158012

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Everything Bad is Good for You by Steven Johnson Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : Peter Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521543487

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Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City by Peter Bailey Pdf

Bailey reconstructs the texture & meaning of popular pleasure in the Victorian entertainment industry and seeks to provide a study of the pub, music-hall, theatre and comic newspaper.

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 3110096005

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Understanding Popular Culture by Steven L. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Tim Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : England
ISBN : 033354109X

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Popular Culture in England, C. 1500-1850 by Tim Harris Pdf

As scholarly interest in popular culture has grown, more and more British and American universities have been introducing courses in popular culture, now seen as an essential aspect of historical investigation. This volume answers the need for a book focusing on England (unlike Peter Burke's Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (1978), and over a broad time period (unlike Barry Reay's Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (1985)), which will fulfil it's aim of appealing both to specialists and students coming new to the subject. Tim Harris has assembled a very strong team of contributors who will ensure a very lively and interesting collection of essays.

Author : Jim Collins
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822391975

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Bring on the Books for Everybody by Jim Collins Pdf

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore bookshops, and new technologies such as the Kindle digital reader, literary fiction has been transformed into best-selling, high-concept entertainment. Collins highlights the infrastructural and cultural changes that have given rise to a flourishing reading public at a time when the future of the book has been called into question. Book reading, he claims, has not become obsolete; it has become integrated into popular visual media. Collins explores how digital technologies and the convergence of literary, visual, and consumer cultures have changed what counts as a “literary experience” in phenomena ranging from lush film adaptations such as The English Patient and Shakespeare in Love to the customer communities at Amazon. Central to Collins’s analysis and, he argues, to contemporary literary culture, is the notion that refined taste is now easily acquired; it is just a matter of knowing where to access it and whose advice to trust. Using recent novels, he shows that the redefined literary landscape has affected not just how books are being read, but also what sort of novels are being written for these passionate readers. Collins connects literary bestsellers from The Jane Austen Book Club and Literacy and Longing in L.A. to Saturday and The Line of Beauty, highlighting their depictions of fictional worlds filled with avid readers and their equations of reading with cultivated consumer taste.

Author : G. Semenza
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230106444

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The English Renaissance in Popular Culture by G. Semenza Pdf

This book considers popular culture's confrontations with the history, thought, and major figures of the English Renaissance through an analysis of 'period films,' television productions, popular literature, and punk music.