Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers. We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating to love it. Danesi's text shows us how popular culture validates our common experiences and affects our daily lives.
The fourth edition of Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives features a fully updated text with new material on celebrity in the digital age. Marcel Danesi delves into the social structures that have led to the emergence and spread of pop culture, showing how it validates our common experiences and offering a variety of perspectives on its many modes of delivery into our everyday lives.
The text expands the illustration program and adds teaching ancillaries on an accompanying website. Features of the Fourth Edition: -The most accessible popular culture textbook on the market -Helpfully organized by technology and medium -Provides new material tracing pop culture from medieval performances and texts, to the role of opera and carnivals and circuses to our present media rich culture -Adds new sections on nature of popularity and a new section on nano-celebrities -Features 50 illustrations -All new ancillary site with power points for instructor use.
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What makes us embrace some parts of it and not others? While critics in every era have decried the media and popular culture as posing serious dangers to all facets of society, very few have tried to understand the meanings and social structures that they have created in our everyday lives. Marcel Danesi explores our human desire for meaning and the need to symbolize it in music, language, art, and other creative forms.
He offers a variety of perspectives to help us understand the products of popular culture - from music and websites to fads, celebrities, and more. Defining pop culture ; Origins and spread ; Pop culture and technology ; Features of pop culture ; Studying pop culture -- Explaining pop culture. Communications models ; Critical theories ; Psychological and sociological theories ; Semiotics ; Transgression -- Print.
Books ; Newspapers ; Magazines ; Comics -- Radio. Radio broadcasting ; The radio stage ; The birth of celebrity culture ; The importance of radio in pop culture history -- Music. The advent of pop music ; The rock era ; The hip-hop era ; Emerging patterns -- Cinema and video. Motion pictures ; Postmodernism ; The blockbuster ; Video culture -- Television.
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