An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture

How can we study popular culture? What makes popular culture popular? Ispopular culture important? What influence does it have?<strong>An Introduction to Studyi... » 

How can we study popular culture? What makes popular culture popular? Ispopular culture important? What influence does it have?An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensiveanswer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major waysin which popular culture has been interpreted and suggests how it may be moreusefully studied.Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we canunderstand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives andtraces the development of popular Hollywood cinema addressing key topics suchas production distribution and exhibition narrative and genre with casestudies of gangster and horror films and film noir. «