John Fiske

Understanding Popular Culture

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

2nd edition. With a new dicussion chapter by former Fiske students.

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Designed as a companion to Reading the Popular, Understanding Popular Culture presents a radically different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415596527
• ISBN-10: 0415596521
• Artikelnr.: 31482568

Autorenporträt

John Fiske is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

@contents: Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters
Henry Jenkins Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular Kevin Glynn,
Jonathan Gray and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors Preface Chapter 1 The
Jeaning of America Chapter 2 Commodities and Culture Chapter 3 Productive
Pleasures Chapter 4 Offensive Bodies and Carnival Pleasures Chapter 5
Popular Texts Chapter 6 Popular Discrimination Chapter 7 Politics
References Index

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@contents: Selected Contents: Acknowledgements Why Fiske Still Matters Henry Jenkins Reading Fiske and Understanding the Popular Kevin Glynn, Jonathan Gray and Pamela Wilson Notes on Contributors Preface Chapter 1 The Jeaning of America Chapter 2 Commodities and Culture Chapter 3 Productive Pleasures Chapter 4 Offensive Bodies and Carnival Pleasures Chapter 5 Popular Texts Chapter 6 Popular Discrimination Chapter 7 Politics References Index

Rezensionen

"Well-written and accessible [...] Making the difficult seem easy is Fiske's great talent. No introductory reading list in the field would be complete without a Fiske." Sociology Magazine