ISBN:
9780415641470
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (559 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Companions
Parallel Title:
Print version The Routledge Companion to Popular Culture
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship.Specifically, this Companion includes:interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular cult
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Global Popular Culture; PART I Theories; 1 Political Economy; 2 Theoretically Accounting for Television Formats in the New International Division of Cultural Labour; 3 Social Semiotics; 4 Audiences: The Lived Experience of Popular Culture; 5 The Media and Democratization; 6 Participation (Un)Limited: Social Media and the Prospects of a Common Culture; 7 Designing Affective Consumers: Emotion Analysis in Market Research; 8 The Metrics, Reloaded
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9 Roland Barthes's Mythologies: A Breakthrough Contribution to the Study of Mass Culture10 The Humdrum; 11 Celebrity; 12 Celebrities in Global Development; 13 Relationbits: You, Me and the Other; 14 Studying Change in Popular Culture: A "Middle-Range" Approach; 15 Externalism and Linked Brains: Popular Culture as a Knowledge-Creating Deme; PART II Genres; 16 De Do Do Do, De Da Da Dadaism: Popular Culture and the Avant-Garde; 17 Privatization Is the New Black: Quality Television and the Re-Fashioning of the U.S. Prison Industrial Complex
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18 The Money Shot in Feminist Queer and Mainstream Pornographies19 The Horrors of Slavery and Modes of Representation in Amistad and 12 Years a Slave; 20 Black Frankenstein and Racial Neoliberialism in Contemporary American Cinema: Reanimating Racial Monsters in Changing Lanes; 21 Nonverbal Signals as Key to Howard Hawks' Cinema: The Importance of Adaptors in His Girl Friday; 22 The Labor of Classical Maternal Melodramas; 23 Agitprop Rap? "Ill Manors" and the Impotent Indifference of Social Protest; 24 World Music: The Fabrication of a Genre
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25 The Shifting Boundaries of Jazz and/in Popular Culture26 Body, Space and Authenticity in Shakira's Video for "My Hips Don't Lie"; 27 "We Cannot Live in Our Own Neighborhood": An Approach to the Construction of Intercultural Communication in Television News; 28 Online Tabloid Newspapers; 29 Media Representation of Science and Health: The Case of Coma; 30 Mass Movement: Popular Culture and the End of the Corset; 31 Shirley Temple: Child Star; 32 Retro in Contemporary Bombay Cinema; PART III Places
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33 The Personal Is Political: The Political Economy of Noncommercial Radio Broadcasting in the United States34 Little Hollywoods: The Cultural Impacts of Runaway Film Production; 35 The Next Ronald Reagan? Celebrity, Social Entrepreneurism, and the Case of Brazilian TV Host Luciano Huck; 36 Solidarity Matters: Global Solidarity, Revolution and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America; 37 Performing Native Identities: Human Displays and Indigenous Activism in Marcos' Philippines; 38 "Like" It or Not: The Impact of Facebook and Social Networking Sites on Adolescents' Responses to Peer Influence
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39 Gallipoli, Tourism and Australian Nationalism
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
