Thinking Popular Culture

Author : Steven Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101158018
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything Bad is Good for You written by Steven Johnson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.

Author : Jason Haslam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780132708463
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Popular Culture, First Canadian Edition written by Jason Haslam and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Popular Culture offers an overview of some of the more foundational and central statements of cultural theory, and provides students and instructors with examples of the ways in which those theories relate to and can be employed for the study of popular culture. Importantly, Thinking Popular Culture draws on many Canadian examples and case studies to explain and employ the theoretical models discussed; some of these theories are also specific to the Canadian context.

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770488111
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pop Culture for Beginners written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pop Culture for Beginners promotes reflective engagement with the world around us and provides a set of tools for thinking critically about how meaning is created, reinforced, and circulated. Privileging a semiotic approach, the book’s first part, “The Pop Culture Toolbox,” outlines the development of pop culture studies; explains the semiotic framework; introduces students to a variety of critical lenses including Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory; and then offers an overview of several pop culture “pivot points” including authenticity, convergence culture, intersectionality, intertextuality, and subculture. The book’s second part provides a series of units, prepared in consultation with subject area experts, built around topics central to popular culture studies: television and film, music, comics, gaming, social media, and fandom. Each chapter includes “Your Turn” activities and discussion questions, as well as possible assignments and suggestions for further reading. The unit chapters in part two also include enabling questions as beginning points for thinking critically and sample readings demonstrating relevant scholarly approaches to popular culture; important vocabulary terms throughout are included in a substantive glossary at the end.

Author : Maratea, R. J.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144732160X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social problems in popular culture written by Maratea, R. J. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Popular culture’ is more than just a broad term for entertainment and frivolous diversions and is highly relevant to many aspects of society. In this exciting textbook, the authors offer insights into the important, but often overlooked, relationship between popular culture and social problems. Drawing on historical and topical examples, they apply an innovative theoretical framework to examine how facets of popular culture—from movies and music, to toys and games, as well as billboards, bumper stickers, and bracelets—shape how we think about, and respond to, social issues. Including student features and evocative case studies, this is the first book to make the link between popular culture and social problems and will help students understand the relationship between them. Deftly combining the fun and irreverence of popular culture with a critical scholarly inquiry, this timely book delivers an engaging account of how our interactions with popular culture matter more than we think!

Author : George Tsakiridis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1978710909
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology and Spider-Man written by George Tsakiridis and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and Spider-Man provides a look at the religious themes present in one of the most popular heroes of the past half-century, Spider-Man. In order to create a systematic theology of Spider-Man, the contributors delve into themes of sin, salvation, and creedal theology, while also addressing liberation theology, Black theology, bioethics, and hermeneutics. This volume balances theological depth with discussion of the comics and films, which makes it a perfect collection for those interested in theology, Spider-Man, or both.

Author : Jonathan Silverman
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770486852
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World is a Text: Writing About Visual and Popular Culture written by Jonathan Silverman and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with “texts” that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Text teaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to “read” everyday objects and visual texts with basic semiotics. The book shows how texts of all kinds, from a painting to a university building to a pair of sneakers, make complex arguments through their use of signs and symbols, and shows students how to make these arguments in their own essays. This new edition is rich with images, real-world examples, writing and discussion prompts, and examples of academic and student writing. The first part of the book is a rhetoric covering argumentation, research, the writing process, and adapting from high-school to college writing, while the second part explores writing about specific cultural topics. Notes, instruction, and advice about research are woven into the text, with research instruction closely tied to the topic being discussed. New to the updated compact edition are chapters on fashion, sports, and nature and the environment.

Author : Tara Brabazon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351879499
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Popular Culture written by Tara Brabazon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11. Addressing modes of thinking, design, music and visual media, Thinking Popular Culture offers a journey through courageous, interventionist and thoughtful ideas, performers and cultures. It welcomes those who ask difficult questions of those in power. Addressing the lack of imagination and dissent that characterizes this new century, it is essential reading for any scholar of cultural studies and popular culture, media and journalism, creative writing and terrorism studies.

Author : Victoria Kannen
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 1773381423
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spaces and Places of Canadian Popular Culture written by Victoria Kannen and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exclusively Canadian textbook, this collection investigates the relationships between identity, geography, and popular culture that are produced and consumed in this sprawling country. Expanding beyond the clichés of friendliness and snow, this text provides a fresh perspective on what it means to be Canadian, both nationally and transnationally. Scholars look at historical subjects like Québécois identity and Indigenous self-representation and explore issues in contemporary media, including music, film, television, comic books, video games, and social media. From Drake to the Tragically Hip, Trailer Park Boys to The Amazing Race Canada, and poutine to maple syrup, mainstream icons and trends are studied in the interdisciplinary context of race, gender, sexuality, politics, and patriotism. Contributing to the location of Canadian popular culture, this unique resource will engage students and scholars of communication studies, cultural studies, and Canadian studies. FEATURES - Includes key concepts and theories and a glossary - Engages students with relatable historical and contemporary examples of Canadiana through a breadth of media, including television shows, websites, journals, celebrities, newspapers, literature, comic books, video games, music, and films - Ensures equal representation of a national and transnational Canada, which includes examples of race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, with particular attention to geographical intricacies that contain all provinces and territories

Author : Gary L. Hardcastle
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459601033
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monty Python and Philosophy written by Gary L. Hardcastle and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour.

Author : C. Brandist
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023050146X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Materializing Bakhtin written by C. Brandist and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-02-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together nine essays by established and new scholars from Russia, Britain and North America to explore the historical contexts and current relevance of the work of the Bakhtin Circle for social theory, philosophy, history and linguistics.