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Author: Rupa Huq
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1780932243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores how notions of suburbia have developed in our collective imagination, examining novels, cinema, popular music and television in the US and UK.
Author: Jenn Brandt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1501320580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.
Author: Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2017-05-11
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1443892645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of popular culture has come of age, and is now an area of central concern for the well-established domain of cultural studies. In a context where research in popular culture has become closely intertwined with current debates within cultural studies, this volume provides a selection of recent insights into the study of the popular from cultural studies perspectives. Dealing with issues concerning representation, cultural production and consumption or identity construction, this anthology includes chapters analysing a range of genres, from film, television, fiction, drama and print media to painting, in various contexts through a number of cultural studies-oriented theoretical and methodological orientations. The contributions here specifically focus on a wide variety of issues ranging from the ideological construction of identities in print media to the narratives of the postmodern condition in film and fiction, through investigations into youth, the dialogue between the canon and the popular in Shakespeare, and the so-called topographies of the popular in spatial and visual representation. In exploring the interface between cultural studies and popular culture through a number of significant case studies, this volume will be of interest not only within the fields of cultural studies, but also within media and communication studies, film studies, and gender studies, among others.
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2004-10-08
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781405120166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMaking Sense of Media is a lively and accessible text that helps readers understand mass media and the texts they carry. Designed expressly for those interested in gaining a solid understanding of the media and how they work, it is an indispensable book. Offers a lively, accessible, and concise textbook to help readers understand mass media and their texts Covers seminal figures, concepts and scholarship in mass media studies, including Vladimir Propp, Mikhail Bakhtin, Raymond Williams, Fredric Jameson, and Stuart Hall Explores the ideas found in nineteen significant books that will provide useful insights and concepts for anyone interested in the study of the media Features chapter-by-chapter short articles by the author, that address an idea or theory in the particular book being discussed Includes charts, boxes features, exercises, and illustrations to round out analyses and engage the beginning student
Author: John Storey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-16
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1135129002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies. Storey presents a range of different ways of thinking theoretically about the everyday; from Freudian and Marxist approaches, to chapters exploring topics such as consumption, mediatization and phenomenological sociology. The book concludes, drawing from the previous nine chapters, with notes towards a definition of what everyday life might look like as a pedagogic object of study in cultural studies. This is an ideal introduction to the theories of everyday life for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of cultural studies, communication studies and media studies.
Author: Henry Jenkins
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2020-02-04
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1479891258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.
Author: Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780761925446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTaking a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies, MediaMaking is a volume that presents the current knowledge about the relationship between media, culture, and society. What sets this volume apart from competing texts is the approach taken and the distinguished scholarship. Rather than examining each major medium separately (newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, film), the authors contend that mass communication cannot be studied apart from the other institutions in society and the other dimensions of social life-each is shaping and defining the other. They hold that media can only be understood in relation to their context-institutional, economic, social, cultural, and historical. As such, this book explores the variety of ways in which the media are involved in our social lives. The authors explore the different relationships between the media and the systems of social value and social differences that organize power in contemporary society. They examine how the media are reproduced and consumed and what they produce in turn. Theoretically and analytically organized with sections on media′s relation to behavior, politics, media effects, the public, globalization, organizations, meaning , and ideology, this text offers students a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of media communication processes-an absolutely necessary part of understanding contemporary life.
Author: Rupa Huq
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-06-20
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1780932596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives. Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production. She looks at the differences in defining suburbia in the US and UK and how characteristics associated with it have shifted in meaning and form.
Author: John Storey
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0820328391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Robert Stanley
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-19
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNews, advertising, entertainment, public relations, propaganda, and other forms of social and public expression circulating through a wide range of media outlets have left few human experience aspects untouched. At perhaps no time in our history has the systematic study of these forms of media and social discourse within the context of the legal, political, economic, cultural, and historical factors more urgent and necessary. As the country increasingly moves into cultural cocoons fostering disembodied divisive communities along with social separation and fragmentation, students taking foundation courses with a range of titles should benefit from studying with this book. These include media literacy, mass communication, media and culture, media dynamics, communications, media rhetoric and persuasion, cultural studies, journalism, popular culture, mass media and freedom of expression, mass communication and society, and press and the public.With the Grim Reaper lurking nearby, pursuing a traditional publisher seemed impractical and unproductive. While getting critiques and suggestions from a diverse range of professors teaching foundation courses is worthwhile, the process invariably involves publisher pressure to put the material into a worn-out mold resulting in a media text bearing little difference from what's already abundantly available. Writing with no one looking over my shoulder with the bottom line in mind proved liberating, freed, as it were, from the descriptive approach most leading publishers demand.
