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Popular culture : an introduction /

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popula...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Freccero, Carla, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Overview and background
  • Serial killers and the question of representation
  • The body and the state
  • Queer subcultures
  • Madonna's popular bodies
  • Truth or Dare
  • Race and identity politics
  • Postcoloniality, imperialism, third world: background and context
  • Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis
  • Diasporic identities and Sandra Cisneros
  • Do the Right Thing
  • Rap, rock, resistance
  • Sound and story
  • Technoculture and postmodernism
  • William Gibson's Neuromancer
  • The cultural politics of the Alien films.