Jerry Palmer

Potboilers (eBook, PDF)

Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies.
The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, focussing both on narrative analysis and the communications process. It explores generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcom.
Distinctions between `high' and `low' culture have relegated many popular forms to the trash-can of `great' literature. This book takes stock of the methods and concepts used to analyse popular culture and argues for a non-elitist approach to the study of literature, film and television.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134984312
• Artikelnr.: 38256806

Autorenporträt

Jerry Palmer is a Professor of Communications at City of London Polytechnic. He is the author of Thrillers (1978) and The Logic of the Absurd (1987), and the wide range of articles he has written on popular culture indicates his lasting interest in the field.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I Concepts and methods
Chapter 1 Approaches to popular fiction
Chapter 2 Narrative grammar
Chapter 3 Narrative and connotative processes
Chapter 4 The speaking/reading subject
Chapter 5 Narrative and ideology
Chapter 6 Hegemony and subject position
Chapter 7 Genre
Part II Case studies
Chapter 8 Crime fiction: the genre dimension
Chapter 9 Crime fiction: film noir and gender
Chapter 10 Soap opera, romance and femininity
Chapter 11 Reading as a Woman
Chapter 12 Sitcom: commercial imperatives and humour
Chapter 13 Sitcom and social reality