Re-reading Popular Culture

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Social Science - 192 pages

Re-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.

  • Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity
  • Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children's television and games
  • Clearly and accessibly written for the student, scholar, and general reader.
 

Contents

Introduction popular culturecultural citizenship
1
1 Ethnicity football and the nation
21
2 Negotiating global popular culture
41
3 Conservative feminism and the detective novel
61
4 Masculinity and the merits of textual analysis as part of an audience study
79
5 Critical viewership
96
6 Children and the media
115
7 Popular culture a modern and a postmodern genealogy
135
Concluding remarks
155
References
160
Index
172
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About the author (2008)

Joke Hermes is Lecturer in the Department of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She is the author of Reading Women’s Magazines (1995) and co-editor of Public Places, Popular Issues (1998).

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