[PDF] Popular Culture eBook

Author : Imre Szeman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1119140331

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Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them. Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic structures that affect media, the politics of pop culture, the role of consumers, subcultures and countercultures, and the construction of social reality Examines the ways in which individuals and societies act as consumers and agents of popular culture

Author : Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher : Rethinking Schools
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Computers
ISBN : 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.

Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438480199

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Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theory through a critical analysis of the ways in which waste and garbage are visually communicated in the public realm. Mehita Iqani examines three key themes evident in the global representation of garbage: questions of agency and activism, cultures of hedonism and luxury, and anxieties about devastation and its affect. Each theme is explored through a number of case studies, including zero-waste recycling campaigns communicated on Instagram, to fine art made with waste, popular entertainment festivals, tropical beach tourism, and films about oil spills and plastic waste in oceans. Iqani argues that we need a new vocabulary to think about what it means to be human in this new age of consumption-produced waste, and reflects on what rubbish allows us to learn about our relationship with the natural world.

Author : Michael Asimow
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780820458151

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This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.

Author : John Storey
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 25,25 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780137761210

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A reader on popular culture

Author : Henry Jenkins
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1479891258

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How 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 : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1442217839

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Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning.The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students."

Author : LeRoy Ashby
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 50,6 MB
Release : 2006-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123976

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With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.

Author : Raymond F. Betts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134598408

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Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.

Author : Jenn Brandt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501320580

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The 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.