Popular Culture : A User's Guide.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szeman, Imre.

Contributor:

O'Brien, Susie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (498 pages)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Somerset : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2017.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Table of Contents

Preface: A User's Guide to Popular Culture: AUser's Guide

Acknowledgments

1 Introducing Popular Culture

Approaching Popular Culture

Defining Popular Culture

Popular Culture Invades the Classroom

The Americanization of Popular Culture

The Decolonization of Culture

Culture and Economics-The Postindustrial Revolution

Why This? Why Now? Why Me? A Couple of Final Arguments for the Importance of Studying Popular Culture

Coffee as Popular Culture

And It All Boils Down To…What Is in a Cup of Coffee?

Suggestions for Further Reading

2 The History of Popular Culture

Taking It from the Streets

Making the Streets Safe for Commerce

Popular Recreation before 1830

Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution

Popular Recreation and Resistance

The Production of Commercial Mass Culture-the Birth of the Culture Industry

Continuities and Changes

3 Representation and the Construction of Social Reality

Truth2Power

Constructing a Crisis-the Discourse of Violent Youth

Signification-the Production of Social Sense

Representing the Youth Crisis

Truth2Power: The Politics of Representation

Contexts of Representation

Representation in Contemporary Culture

4 The Production of Popular Culture

The Business of Culture

"Money Changes Everything": The Pitfalls of Thinking about Production

The Culture Industry Thesis

Shifting Modes of Cultural Production

Cultural Production Today

Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

5 The Consuming Life

Back to "Normal"

A Brief History of Consumer Culture

Consumption as Distinction

Consumption, Desire, and Pleasure

The Politics of Consumption

6 Identity and the Body.

Identity-a Necessary Fiction?

The History of Identity-Some Different Theories

Hegemonic Masculinity, Postfeminism, and the Third‐Wave

LGBTQ+

Different Bodies, Different Selves?

Altered States

7 Identity, Community, Collectivity

Who Do You Want Me to Be?

"The People Who Are Ours"

Modern Identities: Nation, Empire, and Race

Nation and Empire

Postcolonial Identities

Postnational Identities: Melted, Frozen, Reconstituted

Community or Collectivity?

8 Subcultures and Countercultures

The Mainstream and Other Streams

Subcultures and Countercultures: What Is the Difference?

Popular Representations of Subcultures and Countercultures

The Politics of Subcultures

9 Space, Place, and Globalization

(Dis)Locations of Popular Culture

Private versus Public Space

Inside Out

The Big Picture: Globalization?

Is Globalization Real?

Globalization and Popular Culture

Globalization: What's Next?

10 Popular Culture in the Twenty‐First Century

In with the New?

Many Popular Cultures?

New Technology and Its Discontents

Lost Generation?

What Is Next?

Glossary

Works Cited

Index

End User License Agreement.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Szeman, Imre Popular Culture

ISBN:

9781119140375

OCLC:

994810136