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Popular Culture

Name: Popular Culture
Author: Carla A. Freccero

An Introduction

Carla A. Freccero

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Carla A. Freccero

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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.

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Publisher

NYU Press

Year

1999

ISBN

9781479814039

Topic

Ciencias sociales

Subtopic

Cultura popular

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

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