Popular Culture Theory and Methodology A Basic Introduction |
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| Editor:
| Hinds, Harold E.
Motz, Marilyn F.
Nelson, Angela M. S.
Hinds, Harold E. |
| Series title: | A Ray and Pat Browne Book Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87972-871-7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press
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| Imprint: | Popular Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.95 |
Book Description:
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Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded....
More DescriptionSince its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded. Through seminal essays that document the maturation of the field as it gradually made headway toward legitimacy, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology provides students of popular culture with both the historical context and the critical apparatus required for further growth.