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Record Nr.

UNISA996205523503316

Autore

Hermes Joke

Titolo

Re-reading popular culture [[electronic resource] /] / Joke Hermes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Blackwell, c2005

ISBN

1-281-21476-0

9786611214760

0-470-98498-8

0-470-77656-0

1-4051-4879-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Disciplina

302.23

306

Soggetti

Popular culture

Arts, Modern - 21st century

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ethnicity, football, and the nation -- Negotiating global popular culture -- Conservative feminism and the detective novel -- Masculinity and the merits of textual analysis as part of an audience study -- Critical viewership -- Children and the media -- Popular culture: a modern and a postmodern genealogy.

Sommario/riassunto

Re-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children's television and