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Postmodernism and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Postmodernism and Popular Culture (Hardcover)
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Cultural studies began as a radical political project, establishing
the cultural centrality of everyday life and popular culture. In a
postmodern world where old uncertainties are undermined and
identities fragmented, the way forward for those working with
popular culture has become less clear. In contrast to more
pessimistic readings of the possibilities of postmodernity,
"Postmodernism and Popular Culture" engages with postmodernity as a
space for social change and political transformation.
Ranging widely over cultural theory and popular culture, Angela
McRobbie looks at everyday life as an eclectic and invigorating
arena for the interplay of different cultures and identities.
McRobbie assesses the contribution of key figures in cultural and
postcolonial theory--Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin and Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak--and surveys the landscape of today's youth and
popular culture, from salvation army fashion to the rave scene,
from moral panic to teen magazines.
Throughout, Angela McRobbie argues for a commitment to cultural
studies as an "undisciplined discipline," reforming and
re-inventing itself as circumstances demand, for the importance of
ethnography and empirical work, dealing with living voices and
spoken language, and for the necessity for feminists to continually
ask questions about the meaning of a feminist theory in a
postmodern world.
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