Pop culture freaks : identity, mass media, and society / Dustin Kidd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kidd, Dustin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--21st century.

Popular culture.

Identity (Psychology) and mass media.

Advertising--Social aspects.

Advertising.

Mass media--History.

Mass media.

History.

Physical Description:

viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Westview Press, [2014]

Summary:

Love it or hate it, popular culture permeates every aspect of contemporary society. In this accessibly written introduction to the sociology of popular culture, Dustin Kidd provides the tools to think critically about the cultural soup served daily by film, television, music, print media, and the Internet. Utilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Kidd highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath commercial culture and uses this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identity-race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability-to provide a broad overview of the field that encompasses classical and contemporary theory, original data, topical and timely examples, and a strong pedagogical focus on methods. Pop Culture Freaks encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd's examination of the labor force for cultural production, the representations of identity in cultural objects, and the surprising differences in how various audiences consume and use mass culture in their everyday lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

The matrix is everywhere : an introduction to the sociology of popular culture

The revolution will not be available on iTunes : racial perspectives

Movin' on up : class perspectives

Men are from Mars, women are from wisteria lane : gender perspectives

Not that there's anything wrong with that : sexuality perspectives

Handi-capable : disability perspectives

Translating Harry Potter : international perspectives

Freaks in the Matrix

Appendix 1: A brief history of printing and publishing

Appendix 2: A brief history of the music industry

Appendix 3: A brief history of film

Appendix 4: A brief history of television

Appendix 5: A brief history of the internet

References

Glossary

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813349121

0813349125

OCLC:

853310573