Popular Culture, A User?s Guide, International Edition by Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Preface: A User’s Guide to Popular Culture: AUser’s Guide Acknowledgments 1 Introducing Popular Culture

Approaching Popular Culture Defining Popular Culture Popular Culture Invades the Classroom The Americanization of Popular Culture The Decolonization of Culture Culture and Economics—The Postindustrial Revolution Why This? Why Now? Why Me? A Couple of Final Arguments for the Importance of Studying Popular Culture Coffee as Popular Culture And It All Boils Down To…What Is in a Cup of Coffee? Suggestions for Further Reading

2 The History of Popular Culture

Taking It from the Streets Making the Streets Safe for Commerce Popular Recreation before 1830 Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution Popular Recreation and Resistance The Production of Commercial Mass Culture—the Birth of the Culture Industry Continuities and Changes Suggestions for Further Reading

3 Representation and the Construction of Social Reality

Truth2Power Constructing a Crisis—the Discourse of Violent Youth Signification—the Production of Social Sense Representing the Youth Crisis Truth2Power: The Politics of Representation Contexts of Representation Representation in Contemporary Culture Suggestions for Further Reading

4 The Production of Popular Culture

The Business of Culture “Money Changes Everything”: The Pitfalls of Thinking about Production The Culture Industry Thesis Shifting Modes of Cultural Production Cultural Production Today Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

5 The Consuming Life

Back to “Normal” A Brief History of Consumer Culture Consumption as Distinction Consumption, Desire, and Pleasure The Politics of Consumption Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

6 Identity and the Body

Identity—a Necessary Fiction? The History of Identity—Some Different Theories Hegemonic Masculinity, Postfeminism, and the Third‐Wave LGBTQ+ Different Bodies, Different Selves? Altered States Suggestions for Further Reading

7 Identity, Community, Collectivity

Who Do You Want Me to Be? “The People Who Are Ours” Modern Identities: Nation, Empire, and Race Nation and Empire Postcolonial Identities Postnational Identities: Melted, Frozen, Reconstituted Community or Collectivity? Suggestions for Further Reading

8 Subcultures and Countercultures

The Mainstream and Other Streams Subcultures and Countercultures: What Is the Difference? Popular Representations of Subcultures and Countercultures The Politics of Subcultures Suggestions for Further Reading

9 Space, Place, and Globalization

(Dis)Locations of Popular Culture Private versus Public Space Inside Out The Big Picture: Globalization? Is Globalization Real? Globalization and Popular Culture Globalization: What’s Next? Suggestions for Further Reading

10 Popular Culture in the Twenty‐First Century

In with the New? Many Popular Cultures? New Technology and Its Discontents Lost Generation? What Is Next? Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing

Glossary Works Cited Index End User License Agreement