An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture - 9780415157667

Taylor & Francis

How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?\nAn Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.\nDominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives.\n > Chapter 1 Popular cinema; Chapter 2 Popular cinema; Chapter 3 The gangster film; Chapter 4 The horror film; Chapter 5 Film noir; Chapter 6 Popular television; Chapter 7 The television audience; Chapter 8 Popular television genres; Chapter 9 Popular television and postmodernism; > \nDominic Strinati is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leicester. He is the author of An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture (Routledge, 1995) and.