Interrogating Popular Culture

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Key Questions

By Stacy Takacs

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Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, exploring its dynamic and complex nature. Stacy Takacs examines key questions about defining popular culture, its historical development, methodological approaches, and its relationship to social power. The book also investigates how popular culture shapes identity, emotions, and behaviours, using diverse case studies from medieval spectacle to reality TV, sports fandom, and YouTube.
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Ideal for students and readers interested in cultural studies, media analysis, and social theory seeking a clear and analytical introduction to popular culture.

Description

Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing:

Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time? What functions does it serve?
Method: What is a proper object of study? How should we analyse and interpret popular texts and practices?
Influence: How does popular culture relate to social power and control?
Identity and disposition: How do we relate to popular culture? How does it move and connect us?
Environment: How does popular culture shape the ways we think, feel and act in the world?

Illustrated with a wide variety of case studies, covering everything from medieval spectacle to reality TV, sports fandom and YouTube, Interrogating Popular Culture gives students a theoretically rich analytical toolkit for understanding the complex relationship between popular culture, identity and society.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780415841191

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2014

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 25 Halftones, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 187.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 580g

Pages: 256

Collections

Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Stacy Takacs

About the Author

Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University. She is also the author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America.