Come on Down? - Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain (Hardcover)

Represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyze some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, pop music, comedy, advertising, consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of this collection, making it an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1992
First published:	1993
Editors:	Dominic Strinati • Stephen Wagg
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	404
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-06326-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
LSN:	0-415-06326-4
Barcode:	9780415063265

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