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The Birth Of Popular Culture
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Author : Thomas Wilson Hayes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
The Birth Of Popular Culture written by Thomas Wilson Hayes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Drama categories.
"The Birth of Popular Culture: Ben Jonson, Maid Marian and Robin Hood explores the relationship between the profession of author and the discursive construction of "folk" or "popular" culture. Borrowing the tone of Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy, Tom Hayes deconstructs the concept of the author as it appears in Ben Jonson's texts." "This approach to Jonson is unusual--indeed, revolutionary. Its theoretical underpinnings derive from Gramsci, Bakhtin, Foucault, Derrida, Clement and others. Hayes demonstrates how the creation of the authorial persona coincided with the spread of print and the rise of popular literacy. Jonson's authorial voice, then, embodies the contradictions and tensions between the various forms of domination in the courtly culture and the transgressive, disruptive and oppositional forces such as alchemy and witchcraft in the popular culture of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." "Hayes diverges from the more traditional views that perceive the dominant culture as merely repressive of folk culture. He contends, on the other hand, that Jonson is the forerunner and, in effect, the prototype of the modern artist/intellectual who seeks to redefine the relationship between the dominant culture and popular culture. The Jonsonian model of the artist/intellectual, reconstructed by T.S. Eliot, is evident in paradigmatic texts of high modernism, such as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice. This concept, however, is now undergoing a profoundly antihumanist deconstruction, which may be seen in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman." "The theoretical language of The Birth of Popular Culture derives from several schools of critical theory and culture studies, including Marxism, post-structuralism and feminism. But unlike numerous theorists, Hayes is understandable, lucid, persuasive and more text-oriented. This study, perhaps more than any other, brings Jonson into the postmodern era and transforms our understanding of his works. Hayes provides a cogent balance of theoretical elaboration and textual explication, concentrating on the unfinished play Jonson was working on at the time of his death, The Sad Shepherd: Or, A Tale of Robin Hood." "While focusing on Jonson, this work will have much wider appeal, especially to literary theorists."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Unpopular Cultures
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Author : Steve Redhead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Unpopular Cultures written by Steve Redhead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Law categories.
Where legal theory, deviance and cultural studies collide, a whole new area of popular cultural studies has grown. This text provides an introduction to this field, covering such diverse areas as sport, the arts, popular music, heritage, tourism, youth culture, information technology and various mass media.
The History Of The Kiss
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Author : M. Danesi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-12-05
The History Of The Kiss written by M. Danesi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with Social Science categories.
How and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Marcel Danesi takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the history of the kiss, from poetry and painting to movies and popular songs, and argues that its romantic incarnation signaled the birth of popular culture.
Popular Culture Theory And Methodology
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Author : Harold E. Hinds
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 2006
Popular Culture Theory And Methodology written by Harold E. Hinds and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
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. 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. For all its progress, the study of popular culture remains a site of healthy questioning. What exactly is popular culture? How should it be studied? What forces come together in producing, disseminating, and consuming it? Is it always conformist, or has it the power to subvert, refashion, resist, and destabilize the status quo? How does it differ from folk culture, mass culture, commercial culture? Is the line between "high" and "low" merely arbitrary? Do the popular arts have a distinctive aesthetics? This collection offers a wide range of responses to these and similar questions. Edited by Harold E. Hinds, Jr., Marilyn F. Motz, and Angela M. S. Nelson, Popular Culture Theory and Methodology charts some of the key turning points in the "culture wars" and leads us through the central debates in this fast developing discipline. Authors of the more than two dozen studies, several of which are newly published here include John Cawelti, Russel B. Nye, Ray B. Browne, Fred E. H. Schroeder, John Fiske, Lawrence Mintz, David Feldman, Roger Rollin, Harold Schechter, S. Elizabeth Bird, and Harold E. Hinds, Jr. A valuable bibliography completes the volume.
The Birth Of Korean Cool
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Author : Euny Hong
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-08-14
The Birth Of Korean Cool written by Euny Hong and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-14 with Social Science categories.
How did a really unhip country suddenly become cool? How could a nation that once banned miniskirts, long hair on men and rock 'n' roll come to mass produce pop music and a K-pop star that would break the world record for the most YouTube hits? Who would have predicted that a South Korean company that used to sell fish and fruit (Samsung) would one day give Apple a run for its money? And just how does South Korea plan to use pop culture to beat America at its own game. Welcome to South Korea: The Brand. In The Birth of Korean Cooljournalist Euny Hong uncovers the roots of the 'Korean Wave': a fanaticism for South Korean pop culture that has enabled them to make the rest of the world a captive market for their products by first becoming the world's number one pop culture manufacturer. South Korea's economic development has been nothing short of staggering - leapfrogging from third-world to first-world in just a few years and continuing to grow at a rapid and unprecedented rate - and for the first time The Birth of Korean Coolwill give readers exclusive insight into the inner workings of this extraordinary country; it's past, present and future.
Popular Culture In The Middle Ages
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Author : Josie P. Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Popular Press
Release Date : 1986
Popular Culture In The Middle Ages written by Josie P. Campbell and has been published by Popular Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with History categories.
The culture of the Middle Ages was as complex, if not as various, as our own, as the essays in this volume ably demonstrate. The essays cover a wide range of tipics, from church sculpture as "advertisement" to tricks and illusions as "homeeconomics."
Comets Popular Culture And The Birth Of Modern Cosmology
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Author : Sara Schechner
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-03-09
Comets Popular Culture And The Birth Of Modern Cosmology written by Sara Schechner and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-09 with Science categories.
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
X Rated
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Author : Marcel Danesi
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2009-01-13
X Rated written by Marcel Danesi and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-13 with Social Science categories.
Many attack pop culture as a crude 'sexual' and 'celebrity-based' culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to the debate by delving deep into pop culture through a consideration of symbols. Danesi's treatment of letters, such as the X in 'X-Rated,' the 'i' in 'iPod,' and other such symbols, reveals an ancient mythic structure that blends the sacred and profane dimensions of human psychic life. Danesi takes the reader on a remarkable exploration of the radical turns in American society, a society in which the search for pleasure and sexual expression often reign supreme. X-Rated! is a fascinating trip through what gives pop culture its secret appeal.
Popular Culture
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Author : Jilly Hunt
language : en
Publisher: Raintree
Release Date : 2013-09-12
Popular Culture written by Jilly Hunt and has been published by Raintree this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-12 with Nineteen hundreds (Decade) categories.
What did people do for fun in the earliest years of the 20th Century? How did they dress? What were they reading? This book looks at popular culture at the turn of the century and covers the dawn of recording technology, the birth of jazz, early "moving pictures," the first daily comics, and much, much more, including how WWI affected the popular culture of the era.
A History Of Popular Culture
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Author : Raymond F. Betts
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-07-31
A History Of Popular Culture written by Raymond F. Betts and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-31 with Education categories.
Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.