Come on down? : the politics of popular media culture in post-war Britain / [edited by] Dominic Strinati and Stephen Wagg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strinati, Dominic.

Wagg, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Great Britain--History.

Mass media.

Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (401 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature

Contents:

Cover; Come On Down?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Come on down?-popular culture today; 1 Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism; 2 The taste of America: Americanization and popular culture in Britain; 3 The impossibility of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980's; 4 From the East End to EastEnders: Representations of the working class, 1890-1990; 5 British soaps in the 1980's; 6 'One I made earlier': Media, popular culture and the politics of childhood

7 The price is right but the moments are sticky: Television, quiz and game shows, and popular culture 8 Embedded persuasions: The fall and rise of integrated advertising; 9 'You're nicked!': Television police series and the fictional representation of law and order; 10 You've never had it so silly: The politics of British satirical comedy from Beyond the Fringe to Spitting Image; 11 A 'divine gift to inspire'?: Popular cultural representation, nationhood and the British monarchy; 12 Shock waves: The authoritative response to popular music; 13 Digging for Britain: An excavation in seven parts

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contains:

Politics of popular media culture in post-war Britain.

ISBN:

1-280-03678-8

0-203-41481-0

0-203-41485-3

9780203414811

OCLC:

275351913