Popular Culture
eBook - PDF

Popular Culture

An Introduction

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Popular Culture

An Introduction

About this book

The concise introduction to the study of popular culture

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom.

Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, you can cancel anytime from the Subscription tab in your account settings on the Perlego website. Your subscription will stay active until the end of your current billing period. Learn how to cancel your subscription.
At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.
Perlego offers two plans: Essential and Complete
  • Essential is ideal for learners and professionals who enjoy exploring a wide range of subjects. Access the Essential Library with 800,000+ trusted titles and best-sellers across business, personal growth, and the humanities. Includes unlimited reading time and Standard Read Aloud voice.
  • Complete: Perfect for advanced learners and researchers needing full, unrestricted access. Unlock 1.4M+ books across hundreds of subjects, including academic and specialized titles. The Complete Plan also includes advanced features like Premium Read Aloud and Research Assistant.
Both plans are available with monthly, semester, or annual billing cycles.
We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.
Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.
Yes! You can use the Perlego app on both iOS or Android devices to read anytime, anywhere — even offline. Perfect for commutes or when you’re on the go.
Please note we cannot support devices running on iOS 13 and Android 7 or earlier. Learn more about using the app.
Yes, you can access Popular Culture by Carla A. Freccero in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Popular Culture. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
NYU Press
Year
1999
Print ISBN
9780814726709
eBook ISBN
9781479814039
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Popular Culture
Index
Social Sciences
38–39; 
state 
control 
of, 
33–34, 
38–39;
and 
technoculture, 
102, 
108–109;
white, 
51–56, 
82
women’s 
degradation: 
and 
class 
antago-
nism, 
83, 
121; 
and 
fraternal 
culture,
106–108; 
and 
patriarchy, 
107–108; 
and
pornography, 
36, 
39, 
83; 
and 
racial 
an-
tagonism, 
121, 
143
n.
11
world 
music, 
90, 
96, 
144
n.
18
Xenogenesis
trilogy 
(Butler), 
9, 
72–75, 
102
xenophobia, 
in 
Xenogenesis,
73
Young, 
Elizabeth, 
18–19
young 
men: 
and 
cyberpunk, 
104; 
and 
cy-
berspace, 
104–105, 
108; 
fraternal 
sub-
cultures 
of, 
104–109
Zeus 
and 
Methis, 
myth 
of, 
103
Index
|
201
|

Table of contents