UID:
edocfu_9958236145802883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 202 pages)
ISBN:
0-585-31631-7
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0-8147-7164-5
Content:
From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Overview and background -- Serial killers and the question of representation -- The body and the state -- Queer subcultures -- Madonna's popular bodies -- Truth or Dare -- Race and identity politics -- Postcoloniality, imperialism, third world: background and context -- Octavia Butler's Xenogenesis -- Diasporic identities and Sandra Cisneros -- Do the Right Thing -- Rap, rock, resistance -- Sound and story -- Technoculture and postmodernism -- William Gibson's Neuromancer -- The cultural politics of the Alien films.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8147-2670-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8147-2669-0
Language:
English
DOI:
10.18574/9780814771648
