Marcel Danesi

Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Introductory Perspectives

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The fifth edition of Marcel Danesi's Popular Culture is an accessible, engaging introduction for popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media courses. The fifth edition features updated coverage on social media and digital cultures, including those surrounding memes, video games, virtual reality, and streaming services. Pop culture surrounds us. It infuses the movies we watch, the music we listen to, the books we read, the clothes we wear, and the food we eat. It comes to us on our televisions, phones, computers, radio, and in every storefront and billboard we pass on the street. Danesi delves into the social structures that create and promote pop culture, showing how it validates our common experiences. Offering a variety of perspectives on its many modes of creations and delivery, Danesi shows why pop culture will always be something we love to hate and hate to love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881850104
• Artikelnr.: 74840957

Autorenporträt

Marcel Danesi is professor emeritus of linguistic anthropology at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1 What Is Pop Culture? Defining Pop Culture Origins and Spread The
Medieval Entertainments Carnivals and Circuses The Role of Opera Pop
Culture, Material Culture, and Technology Features of Pop Culture Studying
Pop Culture 2 Explaining Pop Culture Communications Models Critical
Theories Psychological and Sociological Theories Semiotic Approaches
Transgression Theories The Nature of Popularity Popularity in the Age of
the Internet 3 The Business of Pop Culture The Market for Pop Culture The
Pop Culture Industry Fad Culture Celebrity Culture Nano-Celebrities A Model
4 Popular Print Culture Books Newspapers Magazines Comics The News Media
and the Nature of Representation 5 Radio Culture Radio Broadcasting Radio
Genres The Radio Stage The Importance of Radio in Pop Culture History Radio
and the Evolution of Contemporary Society and Politics 6 Pop Music The
Advent of Pop Music Social Change Dissent Pop Music in the Internet Age
Music and the "Republic": Plato's View Revisited in the Internet Age 7
Cinema and Video Motion Pictures Postmodernism The Blockbuster Video
Culture Cinema in the Internet Age The Age of "Netflix" 8 Television
Television Broadcasting The Comedic and the Real Television as a Social
Text Effects TV in the Internet Age Reality TV and the Evolution of "Pop
Politics" 9 Advertising and Branding Advertising Ad Culture Branding
Advertising in the Internet Age 10 Pop Language Defining Pop Language Slang
Spelling Style Textspeak The Language of Emoji 11 Online Pop Culture Back
to McLuhan The Online Stage Social Media Memes YouTube The Virtual
Marketplace for Pop Culture 12 Forever Pop The Show Must Go On Pop Culture
Spread Pop Culture in the Global Village Will Pop Culture Survive?
Exercises and Discussion Questions Glossary References and Further Reading