Popular culture: a user's guide

✍ Scribed by O'Brien, Susie; Szeman, Imre

• Publisher: Nelson College Indigenous; Langara College
• Year: 2017;2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 458
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Popular Culture: A User's Guide, International Editionventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.


Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic structures that affect media, the politics of pop culture, the role of consumers, subcultures and countercultures, and the construction of social reality Examines the ways in which individuals and societies act as consumers and agents of popular culture Numerous learning features including case studies, real-life examples, suggested activities, boxed features, a glossary, and an instructor's manual

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Preface: A User’s Guide to Popular Culture......Page 11
Preface to the Fourth Edition......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 17
CHAPTER 1: Introducing Popular Culture......Page 19
CHAPTER 2: The History of Popular Culture......Page 53
CHAPTER 3: Representation and the Construction of Social Reality......Page 85
CHAPTER 4: The Production of Popular Culture......Page 125
CHAPTER 5: The Consuming Life......Page 167
CHAPTER 6: Identity and the Body......Page 199
CHAPTER 7: Identity, Community, Collectivity......Page 237
CHAPTER 8: Subcultures and Counter-Cultures......Page 275
CHAPTER 9: Globalization and Environment......Page 309
CHAPTER 10 Popular Culture in the 21st Century......Page 349
Appendix: Timeline......Page 394
Glossary......Page 401
Works Cited......Page 417
Index......Page 439