Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-war BritainDominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It 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 forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of the collection, making it a much-needed and extremely accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism. |
Contents
Come on down?popular culture today
| 1 |
Leisure popular culture and consumer capitalism
| 9 |
Americanization and popular culture in Britain
| 46 |
Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical womens magazines of the 1980s
| 82 |
Representations of the working class 18901990
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5 British soaps in the 1980s | 133 |
Media popular culture and the politics of childhood
| 150 |
Television quiz and game shows and popular culture
| 179 |
The fall and rise of integrated advertising
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Television police series and the fictional representation of law and order
| 232 |
The politics of British satirical comedy from Beyond the Fringe to Spitting Image
| 254 |
Popular cultural representation nationhood and the British monarchy
| 285 |
The authoritative response to popular music
| 302 |
An excavation in seven parts
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Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain Dominic Strinati,Stephen Wagg Limited preview - 2004 |
Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain Dominic Strinati,Stephen Wagg Limited preview - 2004 |
Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-war Britain Dominic Strinati,Stephen Wagg No preview available - 1992 |
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