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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©1999.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.