An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US - 9781501320576

An Introduction to Popular Culture in the USPeople, Politics, and Power\nAuthor(s): Jenn Brandt, Callie Clare\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501320576, 978-1501320576\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Popular Culture Association's 2018 John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook / Primer \n\nWhat is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to Popular Culture in the US: People, Politics, and Power introduces and explores the history and contemporary analysis of popular culture in the United States. In situating popular culture as lived experience through the activities, objects, and distractions of everyday life, the authors work to broaden the understanding of culture beyond a focus solely on media texts, taking an interdisciplinary approach to analyze American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence. \n\nAfter building a foundation of .