"Hop on Pop" showcases the work of a new generation of
scholars--from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema,
and cultural studies--whose writing has been informed by their
ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from
their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding
from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist
grassroots politics, these writers challenge old modes of studying
the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they
search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling
engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and
sketch a new and lively vocabulary for the field of cultural
studies.
The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including
pro wrestling, the computer games "Myst" and "Doom, " soap operas,
baseball card collecting, the Tour de France, karaoke, lesbian
desire in the "Wizard of Oz, " Internet fandom for the series
"Babylon 5, " and the stress-management industry. Broader themes
examined include the origins of popular culture, the aesthetics and
politics of performance, and the social and cultural processes by
which objects and practices are deemed tasteful or tasteless. The
commitment that binds the contributors is to an emergent
perspective in cultural studies, one that engages with popular
culture as the culture that "sticks to the skin," that becomes so
much a part of us that it becomes increasingly difficult to examine
it from a distance. By refusing to deny or rationalize their own
often contradictory identifications with popular culture, the
contributors ensure that the volume as a whole reflects the
immediacy and vibrancy of its objects of study.
"Hop on Pop" will appeal to those engaged in the study of popular
culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual
studies, as well as to the general educated reader.
"Contributors." John Bloom, Gerry Bloustein, Aniko Bodroghkozy,
Diane Brooks, Peter Chvany, Elana Crane, Alexander Doty, Rob Drew,
Stephen Duncombe, Nick Evans, Eric Freedman, Joy Fuqua, Tony
Grajeda, Katherine Green, John Hartley, Heather Hendershot, Henry
Jenkins, Eithne Johnson, Louis Kaplan, Maria Koundoura, Sharon
Mazer, Anna McCarthy, Tara McPherson, Angela Ndalianis, Edward
O'Neill, Catherine Palmer, Roberta Pearson, Elayne Rapping, Eric
Schaefer, Jane Shattuc, Greg Smith, Ellen Strain, Matthew Tinkhom,
William Uricchio, Amy Villarego, Robyn Warhol, Charles Weigl, Alan
Wexelblat, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
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