Popular Culture: An Introductory Text / Edition 1

by Jack Nachbar, Kevin Lause

Overview

Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780879725723
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/15/1992
Edition description:	1
Pages:	516
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Lexile:	1420L (what's this?)

Editorial Reviews

Provides methods, and examples, for studying the breadth of popular culture--from horror movies, soap operas and rap music to racial and gender stereotyping and the American myth of success. Twenty-five essays (previously published in such journals as Journal of Popular Film and The New Republic) by authors such as Barbara Ehrenreich, David Samuels and Jane Caputi, some of which give bibliographic information. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $23.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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