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The Myth of Popular Culture

Author : Perry Meisel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444317503
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Popular Culture written by Perry Meisel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is afascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the Americannovel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leadsus to redefine our concept of the division between "high" and "low"culture. A stimulating history of high and low culture from DanteAlighieri to Bob Dylan, providing a controversial defence ofpopular culture Seeks to rebut the durable belief that only high culture is‘dialectical’ and popular culture is not by turningTheodor Adorno’s theories on ‘pop’ againstthemselves Presents a critical analysis of three popular traditions: theAmerican novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music Offers an original account of Bob Dylan as an example of howthe distinction between high and low culture is highlyproblematic A provocative book for any student, scholar or general reader,who is interested in popular culture

The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture

Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 149683707X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture written by Mary J. Magoulick and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US

Author : Jenn Brandt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501320580
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US written by Jenn Brandt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968

Author : Lisa Krissoff Boehm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135932557
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Book Synopsis Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 by : Lisa Krissoff Boehm

Download or read book Popular Culture and the Enduring Myth of Chicago, 1871-1968 written by Lisa Krissoff Boehm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-09-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the image of Chicago in American popular culture between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and Chicago's 1968 Democratic National Convention.

What a Man's Gotta Do

Author : Antony Easthope
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415906388
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book What a Man's Gotta Do written by Antony Easthope and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although images of women in the mass media have been widely discussed ln recent years, there is no equivalent analysis of men. Once again masculinity seems to have succeeded in passing itself off as universal and invisible. In this book, Antony Easthope argues that, far from being universal, the main tradition of masculinity in the West is both specific and peculiar. What is masculinity? Drawing up psychoanalysis and an understanding of ideology, Easthope shows how the masculine myth forces men to try to be masculine and only masculine, denying their feminine side. In an original contribution to the understanding of gender he analyzes masculinity as it is represented in a wide range of mass media--films, television, newspapers, pop music, and pulp novels. Why are two men in a John Wayne western more concerned with each other than with the women in their lives? Is aggressive male banter a sign that men hate or love each other? Why does a jealous man always have to see his rival? Written in lively, witty, and accessible style, this book is certain to become controversial but essential reading for a wide range of courses in popular culture, mass media, and cultural studies, as well as those in film study, literature, and sociology.--From back cover.

Goddesses and Monsters

Author : Jane Caputi
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299196240
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Goddesses and Monsters written by Jane Caputi and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays focus upon popular culture as it is informed by ancient and current mythic images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes. Topics include: the cult status of the serial sex killer; sexual murder as a contemporary form of religious sacrifice; pornography as an everyday narrative underlying not only sexism, but also racism, homophobia, and militarism; the relation of incest to nuclearism; pornography and the sacred; cyborg myth; and subtextual presence of ancient goddess figures in contemporary narratives, including that of Princess Diana.

Law and Popular Culture

Author : Michael Asimow
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820458151
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)

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Download or read book Law and Popular Culture written by Michael Asimow and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.

Understanding Popular Culture

Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136868712
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Popular Culture written by John Fiske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- WHY FISKE STILL MATTERS -- READING FISKE AND UNDERSTANDING THE POPULAR -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- 1 THE JEANING OF AMERICA -- 2 COMMODITIES AND CULTURE -- 3 PRODUCTIVE PLEASURES -- 4 OFFENSIVE BODIES AND CARNIVAL PLEASURES -- 5 POPULAR TEXTS -- 6 POPULAR DISCRIMINATION -- 7 POLITICS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture

Author : Tomasz Jacheć
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104001657X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Myth of Michael Jordan in Popular Culture written by Tomasz Jacheć and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life and career of Michael Jordan, one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports, asking how he transcended his sport to become a canonical myth in popular culture. Drawing on work in sport studies, cultural studies, sociology, history, business, and media, this book helps us to understand how myths are made in modern society and highlights the importance of myths in a ‘post‐truth’ world. It unpacks the underlying ‘monomythical’ structure of the Jordan myth, including the universality of the ‘hero’s journey’, and explores those features that are inherently American but that also carried Jordan to the status of a global superstar. This book traces the contours of his career and looks at how the intersection of commercial interests, media narratives, and supreme athletic talent, in a particular social, political, and historical context, generated a myth that continues to resonate today, long after the end of Jordan’s playing career. Drawing on original research and adding new theoretical depth to our understanding of Michael Jordan’s place in popular culture, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the relationship between sport and wider society.

Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition

Author : Bruce David Forbes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520965221
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition written by Bruce David Forbes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture. Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture provides a framework to help students understand and appreciate the work in diverse fields, methods, and perspectives contains an updated introduction, discussion questions, and other instructional tools

Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia

Author : Nissim Otmazgin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136622950
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia written by Nissim Otmazgin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular culture in the political life of states brought about by the massive circulation of cultural commodities and the possibilities for attaining "soft power". In contrast to earlier studies, this volume pays particular attention to the role of states and cross-state cultural interactions in these processes. It is the first major attempt to look at these issues comparatively and to provide an important corrective to the limitations of existing scholarship on popular culture in Asia that have usually neglected its political aspects. As part of this move, the essays in this volume suggest a widening of disciplinary perspectives. Hitherto, the preponderance of relevant studies has been in cultural and media fields, anthropology or history. Here the contributors explicitly draw on other disciplinary perspectives – political science and international relations, political economy, law, and policy studies – to explore the complex interrelationships between the state, politics and economics, and popular culture. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian culture, society and politics, the sociology of culture, political science and media studies.

Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond

Author : Agnes Garcia-Ventura
Publisher : Lockwood Press
ISBN 13 : 1948488256
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular Culture and Beyond written by Agnes Garcia-Ventura and published by Lockwood Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture has consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

The Myths That Made America

Author : Heike Paul
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839414857
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Myths That Made America written by Heike Paul and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential introduction to American studies examines the core foundational myths upon which the nation is based and which still determine discussions of US-American identities today. These myths include the myth of »discovery,« the Pocahontas myth, the myth of the Promised Land, the myth of the Founding Fathers, the melting pot myth, the myth of the West, and the myth of the self-made man. The chapters provide extended analyses of each of these myths, using examples from popular culture, literature, memorial culture, school books, and every-day life. Including visual material as well as study questions, this book will be of interest to any student of American studies and will foster an understanding of the United States of America as an imagined community by analyzing the foundational role of myths in the process of nation building.

Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth

Author : Pete Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317374266
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth written by Pete Bennett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities? It provides a reading of cultural texts in circulation in the present ‘age of austerity’. Through its central focus—popular culture—it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular culture’s reproduction of, and response to, mythical expressions of ‘austerity’ in Western culture, spanning the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and the Middle East and textual events from political media discourse, music, videogames, social media, film, television, journalism, folk art, food, protest movements, slow media and the practice of austerity in everyday life

The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture

Author : Karen E. Hayden
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498547613
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture written by Karen E. Hayden and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar studies how the mythology of the primitive rural other became linked to evolutionary theories, both biological and social, that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century. This mythology fit well on the imaginary continuums of primitive to civilized, rural to urbanormative, backward to forward-thinking, and regress versus progress. In each chapter of The Rural Primitive, Karen E. Hayden uses popular cultural depictions of the rural primitive to illustrate the ways in which this trope was used to set poor, rural whites apart from others. Not only were they set apart, however; they were also set further down on the imaginary continuum of progress and regress, of evolution and devolution. Hayden argues that small, rural, tight-knit communities, where “everyone knows everyone” and “everyone is related” came to be an allegory for what will happen if society resists modernization and urbanization. The message of the rural, close-knit community is clear: degeneracy, primitivism, savagery, and an overall devolution will result if groups are allowed to become too insular, too close, too familiar.

Superman in Myth and Folklore

Author : Daniel Peretti
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496814592
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Superman in Myth and Folklore written by Daniel Peretti and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superman rose from popular culture--comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies" but people have so embraced the character that he has now become part of folklore. This transition from popular to folk culture signals the importance of Superman to fans and to a larger American populace. Superman's story has become a myth dramatizing identity, morality, and politics. Many studies have examined the ways in which folklore has provided inspiration for other forms of culture, especially literature and cinema. In Superman in Myth and Folklore, Daniel Peretti explores the meaning of folklore inspired by popular culture, focusing not on the Man of Steel's origins but on the culture he has helped create. Superman provides a way to approach fundamental questions of human nature, a means of exploring humanity's relationship with divinity, an exemplar for debate about the type of hero society needs, and an articulation of the tension between the individual and the community. Through examinations of tattoos, humor, costuming, and festivals, Peretti portrays Superman as a corporate-owned intellectual property and a model for behavior, a means for expression and performance of individual identity, and the focal point for disparate members of fan communities. As fans apply Superman stories to their lives, they elevate him to a mythical status. Peretti focuses on the way these fans have internalized various aspects of the character. In doing so, he delves into the meaning of Superman and his place in American culture and demonstrates the character's staying power.

Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema

Author : Martin M. Winkler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198029780
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema written by Martin M. Winkler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-21 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical Myth and Culture in the Cinema is a collection of essays presenting a variety of approaches to films set in ancient Greece and Rome and to films that reflect archetypal features of classical literature. The diversity of content and theoretical stances found in this volume will make it required reading for scholars and students interested in interdisciplinary approaches to text and image, and for anyone interested in the presence of Greece and Rome in modern popular culture.