ISBN:
9780415157667
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (305 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture
DDC:
302.23/0973
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?〈BR〉〈EM〉An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture〈/EM〉 provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.〈BR〉Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Popular cinema: the Hollywood system; The rise of the Hollywood studio system; The emergence of cinema; Early popular cinema; The coming of sound; The studio system; The decline of the studio system; The package-unit system; 2 Popular cinema: Hollywood narrative and film genres; The narrative and ideology of the Hollywood film; The American dream; The Hollywood narrative; Narrative and ideology; Genre, popular culture and popular cinema; Conclusions; 3 The gangster film; The gangster film
Description / Table of Contents:
Cultural realismThe Hollywood system and the gangster film; Ideology and the gangster film; 4 The horror film; The horror film; Definitions of horror; Cycles of horror; Universal and the 'horror classics'; Psychological horror; Horror and science fiction in the 1950s; Teenage horror; Hammer horror; Modern horror and modern society; The 'slasher' film; Modern horror and modern Hollywood; Theories of horror; 5 Film noir; What is film noir?; Defining film noir; Gender and film noir; Explanations of film noir; Film noir as a reflection of society; Cultural interpretations of film noir
Description / Table of Contents:
Political influencesEconomic explanations; Conclusions; 6 Popular television: citizenship, consumerism and television in the UK; Citizenship and consumerism; Public service broadcasting; The formation of the BBC; Commercial television and public service broadcasting; The introduction of commercial television; Channel 4; Consumerism, citizenship and video, cable and satellite television; 7 The television audience; The 'effects' of popular television upon audiences; The 'uses and gratifications' approach to popular television and the audience; Semiology, theory and audience studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusions: audiences and power8 Popular television genres; A general introduction; The production of popular television genres; The structure of popular television genres; Production, audiences and genres; Audiences and the soap opera; 9 Popular television and postmodernism; The mass media, culture and society; Consumption, style and meaning; Popular culture, fragmentation and identity; Conclusion; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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