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Re-reading Popular Culture by Joke Hermes; Blackwell Publishing is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Re-reading Popular Culture about?
__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. Content: Chapter 1 Ethnicity, Football, and the Nation (pages 21–40): Chapter 2 Negotiating Global Popular Culture (pages 41–60): Chapter 3 Conservative Feminism and the Detective Novel (pages 61–78): Chapter 4 Masculinity and the Merits of Textual Analysis as Part of an Audience Study (pages 79–95): Chapter 5 Critical Viewership (pages 96–114): Chapter 6 Children and the Media (pages 115–134): Chapter 7 Popular Culture: A Modern and a Postmodern Genealogy (pages 135–154):
Who reads Re-reading Popular Culture?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joke Hermes; Blackwell Publishing
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781405122450
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Social Science
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