LEADER 03588nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910783645103321 005 20230421043325.0 010 $a1-280-03678-8 010 $a0-203-41481-0 010 $a0-203-41485-3 035 $a(CKB)1000000000248676 035 $a(EBL)178069 035 $a(OCoLC)275351913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000292021 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223137 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000292021 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10271865 035 $a(PQKB)10298121 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178069 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178069 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10060708 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL3678 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000248676 100 $a19920924d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aCome on down?$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of popular media culture in post-war Britain /$f[edited by] Dominic Strinati and Stephen Wagg 210 $aLondon $aNew York $cRoutledge$d1992 215 $a1 online resource (401 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-06327-2 311 $a0-415-06326-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Come On Down?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Come on down?-popular culture today; 1 Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism; 2 The taste of America: Americanization and popular culture in Britain; 3 The impossibility of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980's; 4 From the East End to EastEnders: Representations of the working class, 1890-1990; 5 British soaps in the 1980's; 6 'One I made earlier': Media, popular culture and the politics of childhood 327 $a7 The price is right but the moments are sticky: Television, quiz and game shows, and popular culture 8 Embedded persuasions: The fall and rise of integrated advertising; 9 'You're nicked!': Television police series and the fictional representation of law and order; 10 You've never had it so silly: The politics of British satirical comedy from Beyond the Fringe to Spitting Image; 11 A 'divine gift to inspire'?: Popular cultural representation, nationhood and the British monarchy; 12 Shock waves: The authoritative response to popular music; 13 Digging for Britain: An excavation in seven parts 327 $aIndex 330 $aCome on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature 606 $aMass media$zGreat Britain$xHistory 606 $aPopular culture$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMass media$xHistory. 615 0$aPopular culture$xHistory 676 $a302.23/0941 701 $aStrinati$b Dominic$0221097 701 $aWagg$b Stephen$0132473 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783645103321 996 $aCome on down$9442422 997 $aUNINA