The dynamics of interconnections in popular culture(s) / edited by Ray B. Browne and Ben Urish.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browne, Ray B., editor.

Urish, Ben, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--Study and teaching.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Dynamics of Interconnections in Popular Culture(s) is an eclectic and free-ranging collection of articles grounded in a combination of the social sciences with the populist humanities. The collection is further unified by an approach that considers changes and linkages within and between cultural systems as evidenced through their respective popular cultures. The key underlying assumption is that our collective popular expressions create an arena of global cultural exchange, further preci...

Contents:

CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; INTERCONNECTIONS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY'S DICTUM; THE USABLE PAST AND THE USABLE PRESENTIN STEVEN SPIELBERG PRESENTS ANIMANIACS; HISTORY, HERITAGE AND THE MUSEOLOGICALFUNCTION OF SPORTS BARS; ON THE LINKAGES BETWEEN SOCIOLOGYAND POPULAR CULTURE; LINKAGES BETWEEN ECONOMICSAND POPULAR CULTURE; DYNAMICS; 'THEY GOT TO GO'; WE ARE ALL CYLONS; FROMMAIL ORDER AND PICTURE BRIDES,LONELY HEARTS AND SOCIAL CLUBS,TO EHARMONY, 'JUST LUNCH', SPEED DATINGAND COFFEE MATING; THE 'NATURE' OF FRONTIERS; DON'TWORRY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT

APRISON FOR OTHERS-ABURDEN TO ONE'S SELFAMERICAN/JAPANESE DEVELOPINGRELATIONSHIP THROUGH POPULAR CULTURE; CONFLICTING CURRENTS BETWEEN CHINESEAND AMERICAN TRADE CULTURES; PROJECTING NATIONAL IDENTITIESTHROUGH CULTURAL DIPLOMACY; POLITICAL PERFORMANCE, CELEBRITYCULTURE AND MASS-MEDIATED'DEMOCRACY' IN AMERICA; CONTRIBUTORS; APPENDIX; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 16, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-5864-1

OCLC:

875573930