An introduction to theories of popular culture.
Author: Strinati, Dominic Published: 1995 A clear and comprehensive guide to the major theories of popular culture. The author provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies. Among the theories and ideas the book introduces are mass culture, the Frankfurt School and the culture industry, semiology and structuralism, Marxism, feminism, postmodernism, and cultural populism. |