Popular culture as an ideological mask: Mass-produced popular culture and the remaking of criminal justice-related imagery
✍ Scribed by Michael J Lynch; Lenny A Krzycki
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 26
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0047-2352
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✦ Synopsis
This article examines the ability of modern forms of popular culture to capture and remake images of crime. This examination contrasts the role of the production and consumption of popular culture in two broad periods in the "long history" of popular culture: popular culture produced by the masses and mass-produced popular culture. This distinction is used to examine: (1) the association between popular culture and violence; (2) the transformation from the historical period dominated by popular culture produced by the masses to the mass-produced popular culture era; and (3) an application of these arguments demonstrating the ability of mass-produced popular culture to remake modern forms of popular culture produced by the masses. This latter process is illustrated using images generated by rap music and gang movies.