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 games
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“A bold book, written with passion and verve, that challenges us to take a serious look at the role of popular culture in creating citizenship and democracy. It is that rare thing: a brilliant book for studying methods but also a political call for engagement.” Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow
"Hitting all the highlights of popular culture analysis, Joke Hermes reasserts the thesis that popular culture is a domain in which we practice the reinvention of who we are, while acknowledging the pitfalls of such a belief." Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Re-reading Popular Culture is a key guide to understanding 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. It 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.Joke Hermes tackles a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children's television and games. This is a fascinating and illuminating study of popular culture and its audience.
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critical viewership, detective novel reading, postfeminist television, conservative feminism, popular culture research, cultural citizenship, popular culture project, global popular culture, crime readers, police series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third World, Ruud Gullit, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Patrick Kluivert, The X-Files, Children's News, Jump the Shark, World Championship, Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, Dana Scully, European Championship, Charlie's Angels, Jane Tennyson, The Avengers, Action Man, Vrij Nederland, Calista Flockheart, Indra Anderson, The Persuaders, Silent Witness, Nelson Mandela, Edgar Davids, Twin Peaks Browse Sample Pages:
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critical viewership, detective novel reading, postfeminist television, conservative feminism, popular culture research, cultural citizenship, popular culture project, global popular culture, crime readers, police series Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Third World, Ruud Gullit, Prime Suspect, Inspector Morse, Patrick Kluivert, The X-Files, Children's News, Jump the Shark, World Championship, Miami Vice, Hill Street Blues, Dana Scully, European Championship, Charlie's Angels, Jane Tennyson, The Avengers, Action Man, Vrij Nederland, Calista Flockheart, Indra Anderson, The Persuaders, Silent Witness, Nelson Mandela, Edgar Davids, Twin Peaks Browse Sample Pages:
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- Men, Masculinity and the Media (SAGE Series on Men and Masculinity) by Steve Craig on 5 pages
- Mass Media and Society by Michael Gurevitch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Television and Common Knowledge (Comedia) by Jostein Gripstrud in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence by Colette Dowling on page 99, and Back Matter
- International Media Research: A Critical Survey by John R. Corner in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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