Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Author: Elizabeth Marshall

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 094296148X

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A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.

Rethinking Global Security
Rethinking Global Security

Author: Andrew Martin

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0813538300

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In Rethinking Global Security, Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.

Rethinking Popular Culture
Rethinking Popular Culture

Author: Chandra Mukerji

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1991-07-09

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780520068933

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Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture.

Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

Author: Carlos Rojas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-12-08

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1134032234

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Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.

Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture
Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

Author: William Irwin

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-11-18

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1444390988

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What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix , X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself Supplementary website available with teaching guides, sample materials and links to further resources at www.pop-philosophy.org

Beyond Representational Correctness
Beyond Representational Correctness

Author: Edward Schiappa

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2008-03-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0791474232

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Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.

Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Author: Astrid M. Fellner

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1527505286

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This book explores popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century popular media. It brings together contributors from various European countries to investigate the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in a brave, original, and rigorous way. This volume is both an academic proposal and an exercise of commitment to a serious analysis of some of the media that influence us most in our everyday lives. Representation matters, and the position we take as viewers or consumers during reception matters even more.

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Author: Stewart M. Hoover

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997-01-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780761901716

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This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.

Journalism and Popular Culture
Journalism and Popular Culture

Author: Peter Dahlgren

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1992-03-18

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780803986718

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In counterpoint to conventional examinations of images of journalism which tend to concentrate on its informational role in the political process, this book provides a lively analysis of journalism in its other guise - as entertainment. In a series of interrelated studies, the authors examine the theoretical problems in assessing popular journalism and consider common examples of its manifestations - its relationship to media stars, the coverage of sport, and the presentation of news in a `popular' form.

Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture
Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Author: Andrew F. Herrmann

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-10-12

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1498523935

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Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.