Pop Culture Freaks - 2nd Edition

Name: Pop Culture Freaks - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Pop Culture FreaksIdentity, Mass Media, and Society\nAuthor(s): Dustin Kidd\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138498945, 978-1138498945\nSynopsis\nUtilizing each chapter to present core topical and timely examples, Pop Culture Freaks highlights the tension between inclusion and individuality that lies beneath mass media and commercial culture, using this tension as a point of entry to an otherwise expansive topic. He systematically considers several dimensions of identityrace, class, gender, sexuality, disabilityto provide a broad overview of the field that encompasses classical and contemporary theory, original data, topical and timely examples, and a strong pedagogical focus on methods.\n\nPop Culture Freaks encourages students to develop further research questions and projects from the material. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are brought to bear in Kidd's examination of the labor force for cultural .