Popular Culture: Introductory PerspectivesRowman & Littlefield, 2008 - 315 páginas What is pop culture? Why do we so often hate to love it and love to hate it? What makes us embrace parts of it and not others? Marcel Danesi explores our human desire for meaning and the need to symbolize it in music, language, art, and other creative forms. He offers a variety of perspectives to help us understand the products of popular culture_from music and websites to fads, celebrities, and more_tapping into the fun of pop culture without making us feel guilty for enjoying it. |
Contenido
Explaining Pop Culture | 37 |
Print | 67 |
Radio | 97 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 10 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
actors advertising American appeal artists audiences Beatles became become brand carnival carnivalesque celebrities century channels characters cinema comic book commercial contemporary counterculture created critics developed dolls early Elvis Elvis Presley entertainment example fantasy fashion female film genre hero hip-hop horror human images Internet jazz lifestyle magazines mainstream media stage medium modern modern-day moral moral panic mythic narrative newspapers novel opera performances play pop culture pop culture studies pop icon pop language pop music Popular Culture postmodern profane pulp fiction punk punk rock radio broadcasting records representation rhythm and blues Roaring Twenties rock rock music rock-and-roll role sacred sexual showcased sitcoms Snoop Dogg social society song spectacles spread stars started story subtext sudoku symbols television programs themes theory tion traditional trends ture video games viewers websites women word York youth culture