Introduction to Studying Popular Culture

AvDominic Strinati

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-07-06
Mått:138 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:304
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415157667

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Dominic Strinati is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is the author of An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Routledge, 1995) and co-editor (with Stephen Wagg) of Come on Down: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Popular cinema; Chapter 2 Popular cinema; Chapter 3 The gangster film; Chapter 4 The horror film; Chapter 5 Film noir; Chapter 6 Popular television; Chapter 7 The television audience; Chapter 8 Popular television genres; Chapter 9 Popular television and postmodernism;