- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (29 Jun 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415124700
- ISBN-13: 978-0415124706
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.9 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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This is an introductory guide to the main theories of popular culture. It examines the main areas of contemporary popular cultural studies, such as the theories of Adorno and the Frankfurt School, structuralism, semiology, Marxism, feminism and postmodernism, and offers basic definitions of key terms such as "mass culture" and "popular culture".
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Dominic Strinati is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is the author of An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture (Routledge 2000).
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THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF popular culture in the modern era can be chartered by the way it has been identified by the idea of mass culture. Read the first page
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Anybody that studies the media or popular culture will find this book a god-send. Strinati covers topics such as mass media, Frankfurt School and Post-modernism in such a way that anyone, regardless of their academic background, would get something out of it. This book forms the foundation of a student in this area's collection, it can be refered to so many times, becasue of how reader frindly it is. Interested in culture, media, sociology? Buy this book right now!!!!!!
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this book arrived very fast which was of great help seeming i needed it to revise from for my Media A2 examination, its helped me get a more educated grasp of the theories being expressed which i know will help my over all grade from the exam. a good item and a brill seller...
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This volume is a must read for anyone studying Community Development, it will be used a lo.
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