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Popular Culture Raiford A. Guins

Popular Culture By Raiford A. Guins

Popular Culture by Raiford A. Guins


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Summary

A comprehensive collection of writings on popular culture to explain and inspire!

Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as:

- a product of industry;

- an intellectual object of inquiry

- an integral component of all our lives.

Popular Culture Summary

Popular Culture: A Reader by Raiford A. Guins

The selection of essays here is outstanding. The Reader is particularly strong in bridging between founding figures and cutting edge work by newer writers.
- Henry Jenkins, MIT

An extraordinarily well considered selection of articles and essays, arranged with skill and style.
- Charlie Blake, University College Northampton

Popular Culture: A Reader
helps students understand the pervasive role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as a product of industry, an intellectual object of inquiry and an integral component of all our lives.

The volume is divided into 7 thematic sections, and each section is preceded by an introduction which engages with, and critiques, the chapters that follow. The book contains:

  • Classic writings from all the 'big names' including Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Frederic Jameson, Dick Hebdige, Angela McRobbie, Paul Gilroy and many more.
  • Contemporary cultural references throughout - this is not simply an historical account.
  • Pieces drawing on diverse national, disciplinary and subdisciplinary contexts.
  • Sensitivity to issues of gender, race and sexuality.

This reader is a key resource for students of media and communication studies, cultural studies, and the sociology of the media.

Popular Culture Reviews

The selection of essays here is outstanding. The Reader is particularly strong in bridging between founding figures and cutting edge work by newer writers. -- Henry Jenkins
This is an especially comprehensive collection. It includes a wide range of essential readings and organizes them in a skill-focused and learning-focused way. The result is a lively, original and useful Reader. -- George Lipsitz
An extraordinarily well considered selection of articles and essays, arranged with skill and style. -- Charlie Blake

Table of Contents

Entangling the Popular: An Introduction to Popular Culture - Omayra Cruz & Raiford Guins Part I: Delineating: Culture-Mass-Popular 'Culture' and 'Masses' - Raymond Williams Mass Civilization and Minority Culture - F R Leavis A Theory of Mass Culture - Dwight Macdonald Femininity as Mas[s]querade: A Feminist Approach to Mass Culture - Tania Modleski The Popular - Morag Shiach Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular' - Stuart Hall 'Pueblo Pueblo': Popular Culture in Time - Juan Flores Part II: Commodifying: The Commodity, Culture and Social Life The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof - Karl Marx The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin Culture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor W Adorno The Commodity as Spectacle - Guy Debord Reification And Utopia in Mass Culture - Fredric Jameson Introduction to The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Late Capital - Lisa Lowe & David Lloyd Part III: Marketing: Socio-Economic Considerations of Popular Culture Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization - Paul Smith America's Paradox - Ellis Cashmore Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Culture - Inderpal Grewal Corporate Disney in Action - Janet Wasko How Tiger Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture - Henry Yu Part IV: Practicing: Popular Tastes & Ways of Consuming Popular Discrimination - John Fiske (Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading Hustler - Laura Kipnis Symbolic Creativity - Paul Willis Star Trek: Rerun, Reread, Rewritten - Fan Writing as Textual Poaching - Henry Jenkins Sleaze Mania, Euro-Trash, and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture - Joan Hawkins Part V: Voicing: Identities and Articulation What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture? - Stuart Hall Bombay, U.K., Yuba City: Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora - Gayatri Gopinath The Face of America and the State of Emergency - Lauren Berlant Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self - Jose Esteban Munoz Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn - Richard Fung Part VI: Styling: Subculture and Popular Performance Subculture - Dick Hebdige Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Ragmarket - Angela McRobbie The Media Development of 'Subcultures' (Or the Sensational Story of Acid House) - Sarah Thornton A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop - Tricia Rose If I Had a Dick: Queers, Punks, and Alternative Acts - Cynthia Fuchs Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance - Judith Halberstam Part VII: Locating: Space, Place, and Power Walking in the City - Michel de Certeau Seance, Tricknowlogy, Skateboarding, and the Space of Youth - Michael Nevin Willard Straight Out the Barrio: Ozomatli and the Importance of Place in the Formation of Chicano/a Popular Culture in Los Angeles - Victor Hugo Viesca Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve: Notes Towards a Diaspora History of Black Ephemera - Paul Gilroy Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-Clonial Politics of Sound - George Lipsitz Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces - Lisa Nakamura

Additional information

GOR013581334
9780761974727
0761974725
Popular Culture: A Reader by Raiford A. Guins
Used - Like New
Paperback
SAGE Publications Inc
20050318
560
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