An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power
ISBN-13:
9781501320576
ISBN-10:
1501320572
Edition:
HPOD
Author:
Jenn Brandt, Callie Clare
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Format:
Paperback
288 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781501320576
ISBN-10:
1501320572
Edition:
HPOD
Author:
Jenn Brandt, Callie Clare
Publication date:
2018
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Academic
Format:
Paperback
288 pages
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An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power (ISBN-13: 9781501320576 and ISBN-10: 1501320572), written by authors
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Winner of the Popular Culture Association's 2019 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook / Primer What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power introduces and explores the history and contemporary analysis of popular culture in the United States. In situating popular culture as lived experience through the activities, objects, and distractions of everyday life, the authors work to broaden the understanding of culture beyond a focus solely on media texts, taking an interdisciplinary approach to analyze American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.
After building a foundation of the history of popular culture as an academic discipline, the book looks broadly at cultural myths and the institutional structures, genres, industries, and people that shape the mindset of popular culture in the United States. It then becomes more focused with an examination of identity, exploring the ways in which these myths and mindset are internalized, practiced, and shaped by individuals. The book concludes by connecting the broad understanding of popular culture and the unique individual experience with chapters dedicated to the objects, communities, and celebrations of everyday life. This approach to the field of study explores all matters of culture in a way that is accessible and relevant to individuals in and outside of the classroom.
After building a foundation of the history of popular culture as an academic discipline, the book looks broadly at cultural myths and the institutional structures, genres, industries, and people that shape the mindset of popular culture in the United States. It then becomes more focused with an examination of identity, exploring the ways in which these myths and mindset are internalized, practiced, and shaped by individuals. The book concludes by connecting the broad understanding of popular culture and the unique individual experience with chapters dedicated to the objects, communities, and celebrations of everyday life. This approach to the field of study explores all matters of culture in a way that is accessible and relevant to individuals in and outside of the classroom.
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