Topographies of popular culture

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Topographies of popular culture

edited by Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture's topographies. In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatiality in the field of critical theory, and from such global transformations as the processes and after-effects of decolonisation and globalisation. It contemplates the spatiality of genre and the interactions between the local and the global, as well as the increasing circulation and adaptation of popular texts across the globe. The ten individual chapters analyse the spaces of popular culture at a scale that extends from an individual's everyday experience to genuinely global questions, offering new theoretical and analytical insights into the relation between spatiality and the popular.

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  • NCID
    BB25195308
  • ISBN
    • 9781443894739
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 245 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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