An introduction to studying popular culture
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| Glavni autor: | Strinati, Dominic (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
cop. 2000.
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Sadržaj:
- 1. Popular cinema: the Hollywood system
- The rise of the Hollywood studio system
- The emergence of cinema
- Early popular cinema
- The coming of sound
- The studio system
- The decline of the studio system
- The package-unit system
- 2. Popular cinema: Hollywood narrative and film genres
- The narrative and ideology of the Hollywood film
- The American dream
- The Hollywood narrative
- Narrative and idelogy
- Genre, popular culture and popular cinema
- Conclusions
- 3. The gangster film
- The gangster film
- Cultural realism
- The Hollywood system and the gangster film
- Ideology and the gangster film
- 4. The horror film
- The horror film
- Definitions of horror
- Cycles of horror
- Universal and the 'horror classics'
- Psychological horror
- Horror and science fiction in the 1950s
- Teenage horror
- Hammer horror
- Modern horror and modern society
- The 'slasher' film
- Modern horror and modern Hollywood
- Theories of horror
- 5. 'Film noir'
- What is film noir?
- Defining film noir
- Gender and film noir
- Explanations of film noir
- Film noir as a reflection of society
- Cultural interpretation of film noir
- Political influences
- Economic explanations
- Conclusions
- 6. Popular television: citizenship, consumerism and television in the UK
- Citizenship and consumerism
- Public service broadcasting
- The formation of BBC
- Commercial television and public service broadcasting
- The introduction of commercial television
- Channel 4
- Consumerism, citizenship and video, cable and satellite television
- 7. The television audience
- The 'effects' of popular television upon audiences
- The 'uses and gratifications' approach to popular television and the audience
- Semiology, theory and audience studies
- Conclusions: audiences and power
- 8. Popular television genres
- A general introduction
- The production of popular television genres
- The structure of popular television genres
- Production, audiences and genres
- Audiences and the soap opera
- 9. Popular television and postmodernism
- The mass media, culture and society
- Consumption, style and meaning
- Popular culture, fragmentation and identity
- Conclusion