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An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
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Widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students of the major theories of popular culture, this is a critical assessment of how these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #89420 in Books
- Published on: 2003-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
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From the Back Cover
An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is a clear and comprehensive guide to the major theories of popular culture. Dominic Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies.
Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism and cultural populism. Strinati explains how theorists such as Adorno, Barthes, Althusser and Hebdige have grappled with the many forms of popular culture, from jazz to the Americanization of British popular culture, from Hollywood cinema to popular television series, and from teen magazines to the spy novel.
Each chapter includes a guide to key texts for further reading and there is also a comprehensive bibliography. This new edition has been fully revised and updated.
About the Author
Dominic Strinati is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is the author of An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture (Routledge 2000).
Customer Reviews
Outstanding!
Anybody that studies the media or popular culture will find this book a god-send. Strinati covers topics such as mass media, Frankfurt School and Post-modernism in such a way that anyone, regardless of their academic background, would get something out of it. This book forms the foundation of a student in this area's collection, it can be refered to so many times, becasue of how reader frindly it is. Interested in culture, media, sociology? Buy this book right now!!!!!!
