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Popular Culture A User's Guide.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Szeman, Imre
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface: A User's Guide to Popular Culture: AUser's Guide
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introducing Popular Culture
  • Approaching Popular Culture
  • Defining Popular Culture
  • Popular Culture Invades the Classroom
  • The Americanization of Popular Culture
  • The Decolonization of Culture
  • Culture and Economics-The Postindustrial Revolution
  • Why This? Why Now? Why Me? A Couple of Final Arguments for the Importance of Studying Popular Culture
  • Coffee as Popular Culture
  • And It All Boils Down To...What Is in a Cup of Coffee?
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 2 The History of Popular Culture
  • Taking It from the Streets
  • Making the Streets Safe for Commerce
  • Popular Recreation before 1830
  • Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
  • Popular Recreation and Resistance
  • The Production of Commercial Mass Culture-the Birth of the Culture Industry
  • Continuities and Changes
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 3 Representation and the Construction of Social Reality
  • Truth2Power
  • Constructing a Crisis-the Discourse of Violent Youth
  • Signification-the Production of Social Sense
  • Representing the Youth Crisis
  • Truth2Power: The Politics of Representation
  • Contexts of Representation
  • Representation in Contemporary Culture
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 4 The Production of Popular Culture
  • The Business of Culture
  • "Money Changes Everything": The Pitfalls of Thinking about Production
  • The Culture Industry Thesis
  • Shifting Modes of Cultural Production
  • Cultural Production Today
  • Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
  • 5 The Consuming Life
  • Back to "Normal"
  • A Brief History of Consumer Culture
  • Consumption as Distinction
  • Consumption, Desire, and Pleasure
  • The Politics of Consumption
  • Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing
  • 6 Identity and the Body
  • Identity-a Necessary Fiction?
  • The History of Identity-Some Different Theories
  • Hegemonic Masculinity, Postfeminism, and the Third-Wave
  • LGBTQ+
  • Different Bodies, Different Selves?
  • Altered States
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 7 Identity, Community, Collectivity
  • Who Do You Want Me to Be?
  • "The People Who Are Ours"
  • Modern Identities: Nation, Empire, and Race
  • Nation and Empire
  • Postcolonial Identities
  • Postnational Identities: Melted, Frozen, Reconstituted
  • Community or Collectivity?
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 8 Subcultures and Countercultures
  • The Mainstream and Other Streams
  • Subcultures and Countercultures: What Is the Difference?
  • Popular Representations of Subcultures and Countercultures
  • The Politics of Subcultures
  • Suggestions for Further Reading
  • 9 Space, Place, and Globalization
  • (Dis)Locations of Popular Culture
  • Private versus Public Space
  • Inside Out
  • The Big Picture: Globalization?
  • Is Globalization Real?
  • Globalization and Popular Culture