A Companion to Popular Culture E-Book

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Serie: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1428

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field. * Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to folklore and from TV to technology * Features contributions from established and up-and-coming scholars from a range of disciplines * Offers a detailed history of the study of popular culture * Balances new perspectives on the politics of culture with in-depth analysis of topics at the forefront of popular culture studies

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Notes on Contributors

Part I: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction

Works Cited

Part II: Popular Culture as a Field of Study

Chapter 2: The Historical Study of Popular Culture

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Chapter 3: Textual Criticism of Popular Culture

Introduction

Close Reading in the Ivory Tower

Studying Popular Culture

Only a Theory

On the Media

The Future of Textual Criticism of Popular Culture

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Chapter 4: Ethnographic and Folkloristic Study of Popular Culture

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Chapter 5: Preservation, Restoration, and Accessibility of Popular Culture Materials

History Matters

Conservation and Conversion

Conclusions

Filmography

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Part III: Texts, Genres, and Formulas

Chapter 6: The History and Logic of Genre Study

What Is Genre?

Genres and the Entertainment Industries

Audiences and the Evolution of Genres

Genre Cycles and Hybridization

A Return to Audience and Genre Pleasures

Genre and the Artist

Genre and the Critic

Conclusion

Filmography

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Chapter 7: Genres and Formulas in Popular Literature

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Chapter 8: Popular Music Genres

What Is Popular Music?

Popular Genres in the Age of Electricity

The Most Popular Music You Never Heard

The Next Big Thing

Filmography

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Chapter 9: Popular Genres in the Visual Arts

Introduction

Early American Visual Culture

Mid-Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Turn-of-the-Century Visual Culture

Visual Culture Between the Wars

Visual Culture After World War II

Conclusion: Visual Culture in the Twenty-First Century

Filmography

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Part IV: Media and Technologies

Chapter 10: Technological Determinism

Orality and Literacy

The Toronto School

McLuhan’s Acolytes

Determinism’s Legacy

Filmography

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Chapter 11: Material Culture and Heritage

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Chapter 12: Film and Television in Popular Culture

Introduction

Debating and Valorizing the Seventh Art

Technological Change and Classical Hollywood Cinema

Living Room Culture

Theorizing Television

Conclusion

Filmography

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Chapter 13: Computers and Culture

Hardware: The Computer as Tool of Popular Culture

Software – Technological Determinism and Social Constructivism

Application – Representation and Computation

Tools – Production and Consumption

Conclusion

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Part V: Pastimes and Practices

Chapter 14: Food and Culture

The Polysemy of Food

Food and Nationalism

Consumption and Democracy

Consumption and Capitalism

Hegemony and Globalization

Transforming the Food System

Consumption and Embodiment

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Chapter 15: Sports

White Dominance and the Fear of the Feminine

Marketing of the Black Style and Containing Gendered Threats

Black Dominance and Fantasies of Control

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Chapter 16: Circuses, Carnivals, World’s Fairs and Expositions, and Theme Parks

Circuses: Bringing the Big Top to the People