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Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Jenkins
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Description for Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Paperback. Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader, this book showcases the work of a generation of scholars - from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies. Editor(s): Jenkins, Henry; McPherson, Tara; Shattuc, Jane. Num Pages: 760 pages, 63 b&w photos. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 259 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1320.
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist grassroots politics, these writers challenge old modes of studying the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and sketch a new ... Read more
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist grassroots politics, these writers challenge old modes of studying the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and sketch a new ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
760
Condition
New
Number of Pages
760
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822327370
SKU
V9780822327370
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About Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is Anne Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of editor of several books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and The Children’s Culture Reader. Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California ... Read more
Reviews for Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
“Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc have collected a diverse array of intriguing insights into popular culture—not with disdain or postmodern mumble, but with real interest and even respect. Hop on Pop looks at pop culture as the water we swim in, as a muscular change agent, as the mirror held up to human nature.”—Brenda Laurel, author of Utopian ... Read more