Popular culture : a reader

Guins, Raiford. (Added Author). Cruz, Omayra Zaragoza. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0761974717 (cased)
ISBN: 0761974725 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
x, 549 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, c2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Entangling the popular : an introduction to popular culture : a reader / Omayra Cruz and Raiford Guins -- I. Delineating : culture-mass-popular -- 1. 'Culture' and 'masses' / Raymond Williams -- 2. 'Mass civilisation and minority culture' / F. R. Leavis -- 3. 'A theory of mass culture' / Dwight Macdonald -- 4. 'Femininity as mas[s]querade : a feminist approach to mass culture' / Tania Modleski -- 5. 'The popular' / Morag Shiach -- 6. 'Notes on deconstructing "the popular"' / Stuart Hall -- 7. '"Pueblo pueblo" : popular culture in time' / Juan Flores -- II. Commodifying : the commodity, culture and social life -- 8. 'The fetishism of commodities and the secret thereof' / Karl Marx -- 9. 'The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction' / Walter Benjamin -- 10. 'Culture industry reconsidered' / Theodor W. Adorno -- 11. 'The commodity as spectacle' / Guy Debord -- 12. 'Reification and utopia in mass culture' / Fredric Jameson -- 13. 'Introduction to the politics of culture in the shadow of late capital' / Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd -- III. Marketing : socio-economic considerations of popular culture -- 14. 'Tommy Hilfiger in the age of mass customization' / Paul Smith -- 15. 'America's paradox' / Ellis Cashmore -- 16. 'Traveling Barbie : Indian transnationality and new consumer subjects' / Inderpal Grewal -- 17. 'Corporate disney in action' / Janet Wasko -- 18. 'How tiger lost his stripes : post-nationalist American studies as a history of race, migration, and the commodification of culture' / Henry Yu -- IV. Practicing : popular tastes and ways of consuming -- 19. 'Popular discrimination' / John Fiske -- 20. '(Male) desire and (female) disgust : reading Hustler' / Laura Kipnis --