Politics and popular culture
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Politics and popular culture
Polity Press, c1997
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Bibliography: p. [199]-208
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ISBN 9780745612133
Description
In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably linked. In this book John Street provides a broad survey and analysis of this relationship. He argues that we need to understand politics as a form of popular culture and popular culture as a form of politics. Popular culture involves the organizing of our pleasure, and therefore our values, identities and interests. But at the same time our access to and enjoyment of popular culture depends on a series of political decisions and processes which shape that culture. In Politics and Popular Culture, Street explores the debate about the political character of popular culture between those who see it as a form of manipulation and those who see it as populist self-expression. He argues that such approaches are limited and that we need to alter our perspective on the politics of popular culture. He does this by looking more closely at the ways in which the state organizes the production and consumption of popular culture, and at how political judgements are part of the creation and the pleasures of popular culture.
This book will be invaluable for students in cultural studies, mass media studies, sociology and politics.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Political and the Popular: 1. Passion, populism, politics. 2. Popular culture as politics. 3. Politics as popular culture. Part II: Governing Global Culture: 4. All around the world: the global politics of popular culture. 5. Ruling the waves: the state and popular culture. 6. The local politics of popular culture. Part III: Political Theory/Cultural Theory: 7. Cultural theories of politics. 8. Political theories of culture. 9. The politics of judgement: from condemnation to commendation. 10. Political pleasures. Bibliography. Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780745612140
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In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably interlinked. In this exciting new book, John Street provides a broad survey and analysis of this relationship.
Table of Contents
Part I: The Political and the Popular:. 1. Passion, populism, politics.
2. Popular culture as politics.
3. Politics as popular culture.
Part II: Governing Global Culture:.
4. All around the world: the global politics of popular culture.
5. Ruling the waves: the state and popular culture.
6. The local politics of popular culture.
Part III: Political Theory/Cultural Theory:.
7. Cultural theories of politics.
8. Political theories of culture.
9. The politics of judgement: from condemnation to commendation.
10. Political pleasures.
Bibliography.
Index.
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