ISBN:
9780415063265
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (401 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Come on Down? : Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain
DDC:
302.230941
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This introduction to popular media culture in Britain discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important processes
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Come On Down?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Come on down?-popular culture today; 1 Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism; 2 The taste of America: Americanization and popular culture in Britain; 3 The impossibility of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980s; 4 From the East End to EastEnders: Representations of the working class, 1890-1990; 5 British soaps in the 1980s; 6 'One I made earlier': Media, popular culture and the politics of childhood
Description / Table of Contents:
7 The price is right but the moments are sticky: Television, quiz and game shows, and popular culture8 Embedded persuasions: The fall and rise of integrated advertising; 9 'You're nicked!': Television police series and the fictional representation of law and order; 10 You've never had it so silly: The politics of British satirical comedy from Beyond the Fringe to Spitting Image; 11 A 'divine gift to inspire'?: Popular cultural representation, nationhood and the British monarchy; 12 Shock waves: The authoritative response to popular music; 13 Digging for Britain: An excavation in seven parts
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
