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Understanding Popular Culture

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What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular 'texts' reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? This book answers these and a host of other questions. It presents a different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people.

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Understanding Popular Culture, John Fiske

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Language
English
Authors
John Fiske
Released
2010
Format
Paperback
Pages
232
ISBN10
041559653X
ISBN13
9780415596534
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First published
1989
Original title
Understanding Popular Culture
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What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what do popular 'texts' reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? This book answers these and a host of other questions. It presents a different theory of what it means for culture to be popular: that it is, literally, of the people.