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In this companion volume to 'Reading the popular', Fiske presents a radical theory of what it means for culture to be popular.
This study attempts to outline a theory of popular culture in capitalist societies. It is published simultaneously, and as an extension of, "Reading the Popular", an analysis of key sites and texts where culture is made, ranging from the beach to Madonna, from TV News to Sears T…
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Rou…
In the broad spectrum of popular culture, one can be a fan of just about anything: comic books, television shows, fantasy novels, movie franchises, musical artists, and so on. Because fans are fluid and ever-changing, however, defining them poses a challenge. As a result, too fe…
This collection of essays examines the ways that entertainment and media are created and consumed in conjunction with gender stereotypes, by examining the diverse ways that women are confronting these stereotypes.
Biopics on artists have an enormous effect on the popular understanding of what it means to be an artist. 'Projected Art History' highlights the narrative structure and images created in the film genre of biopics, in which the artist's life is being dramatized and embodied by an…
How and why do people 'frame' animals so pervasively, and what are the ramifications are of this habit? For animals, being put into a cultural frame (a film, a website, a pornographic tableau, an advertisement, a cave drawing, a zoo) means being taken out of their natural contex…
An exploration of the way in which animals are 'framed' in contemporary visual culture. Written in an engaging style, this book challenges the field, dealing with controversial aspects of animal exploitation and examines material that is seldom discussed within animal studies.
"A Social History of Early Rock `n' Roll in Germany explores the people and spaces of St. Pauli's rock'n'roll scene in the 1960s. Starting in 1960, young British rockers were hired to entertain tourists in Hamburg's red-light district around the Reeperbahn in the area of St. Pau…