Popular culture : introductory perspectives

著者

• Danesi, Marcel

書誌事項

Popular culture : introductory perspectives

Marcel Danesi

Rowman & Littlefield, c2019

4th ed

• : pbk

注記

Previous ed.: 2015

Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-370) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

For courses in popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media. Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers. We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating to love it. Danesi's text shows us how popular culture validates our common experiences and affects our daily lives. The fourth edition of Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives features a fully updated text with new material on celebrity in the digital age. Marcel Danesi delves into the social structures that have led to the emergence and spread of pop culture, showing how it validates our common experiences and offering a variety of perspectives on its many modes of delivery into our everyday lives. The text expands the illustration program and adds teaching ancillaries on an accompanying website. Features of the Fourth Edition: -The most accessible popular culture textbook on the market -Helpfully organized by technology and medium -Provides new material tracing pop culture from medieval performances and texts, to the role of opera and carnivals and circuses to our present media rich culture -Adds new sections on nature of popularity and a new section on nano-celebrities -Features 50 illustrations -All new ancillary site with power points for instructor use

目次

Preface 1 What Is Pop Culture? Defining Pop Culture Origins and Spread The Medieval Entertainments Carnivals and Circuses The Role of Opera Pop Culture, Material Culture, and Technology Features of Pop Culture Studying Pop Culture 2 Explaining Pop Culture Communications Models Critical Theories Psychological and Sociological Theories Semiotic Approaches Transgression Theories The Nature of Popularity Popularity in the Age of the Internet 3 The Business of Pop Culture The Market for Pop Culture The Pop Culture Industry Fad Culture Celebrity Culture Nano-Celebrities A Model 4 Popular Print Culture Books Newspapers Magazines Comics The News Media and the Nature of Representation 5 Radio Culture Radio Broadcasting Radio Genres The Radio Stage The Importance of Radio in Pop Culture History Radio and the Evolution of Contemporary Society and Politics 6 Pop Music The Advent of Pop Music Social Change Dissent Pop Music in the Internet Age Music and the "Republic": Plato's View Revisited in the Internet Age 7 Cinema and Video Motion Pictures Postmodernism The Blockbuster Video Culture Cinema in the Internet Age The Age of "Netflix" 8 Television Television Broadcasting The Comedic and the Real Television as a Social Text Effects TV in the Internet Age Reality TV and the Evolution of "Pop Politics" 9 Advertising and Branding Advertising Ad Culture Branding Advertising in the Internet Age 10 Pop Language Defining Pop Language Slang Spelling Style Textspeak The Language of Emoji 11 Online Pop Culture Back to McLuhan The Online Stage Social Media Memes YouTube The Virtual Marketplace for Pop Culture 12 Forever Pop The Show Must Go On Pop Culture Spread Pop Culture in the Global Village Will Pop Culture Survive? Exercises and Discussion Questions Glossary References and Further Reading

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB27377907
• ISBN:
  • 9781538107430
• LCCN: 2018014333
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Lanham, Md.
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 381 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : HM621
  • DC23 : 306
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Popular culture