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An Introduction To Studying Popular Culture
Author: Strinati, Dominic
Paperback; Bibliography
304 pages
Published: July 2000
Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415157676

How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives and traces the development of popular Hollywoodcinema, addressing key topics such as production, distribution and exhibition, narrative, and genre, with case studies of gangster and horror films, and film noir.Uses examples of popular film and television to show how to study popular culture. How can we study popular culture? What makes popular culture popular? Is popular culture important? Providing a critical assesment to these questions, this text examines the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.


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