Re-reading Popular Culture
1. Edition August 2005
196 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Re-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.
* Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity
* Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children's television and games
* Clearly and accessibly written for the student, scholar, and general reader.
Introduction Popular culture/cultural citizenship.
1 Ethnicity, football and the nation.
2 Negotiating global popular culture.
3 Conservative feminism and the detective novel.
4 Masculinity and the merits of textual analysis as part of an
audience study.
5 Critical viewership.
6 Children and media.
7 Popular culture: a modern and a postmodern genealogy.
Concluding remarks.
References.
Index
us to take a serious look at the role of popular culture in
creating citizenship and democracy. It is that rare thing: a
brilliant book for studying methods but also a political call for
engagement." Christine Geraghty, University of
Glasgow
"Hitting all the highlights of popular culture analysis, Joke
Hermes reasserts the thesis that popular culture is a domain in
which we practice the reinvention of who we are, while
acknowledging the pitfalls of such a belief." Andrea Press,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
