Popular Culture : A User's Guide

"Popular Culture: A User's Guide is an introduction to the study of mass culture and media. It is designed to be used as the core text in courses in popular culture and cultural studies, generally offered out of university departments of Communications (occasionally English, Film, and Sociology). While courses in cultural studies and pop culture seem exciting to undergraduate students, in reality they are encountering key social theorists for this first time, and often struggle with the amount of theory the course requires. PC: A User's Guide provides a theoretically sophisticated but approachable introduction to the study of popular culture, giving students the analytical tools to understand the everyday texts and practices that surround them, as well as their own roles as consumers of and participants in popular culture. Unlike other introductory texts, it is thoroughly grounded in the historical development of pop culture from the mid-19th century to the present. The book includes a large number of case studies, suggested activities, and close-up boxes, all of which offer pedagogical support for students in a way that encourages careful critical thinking. The case studies in particular are helpful, as the clearest, most useful way to teach theory to students is to show them how it can be applied."--

Об авторе (2017)

Imre Szeman is Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies and Professor of English, Film Studies and Sociology at the University of Alberta. He conducts research on and teaches in the areas of social and cultural theory, film and visual culture, globalization and nationalism, and Canadian studies. Szeman is the recipient of the John Polanyi Prize in Literature (2000), the Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award (2003), the Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization (2004), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2005-7), and the President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision at McMaster University (2008), among other awards. He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the US Cultural Studies Association. Szeman is founding editor of Reviews in Cultural Theory and a member of the editorial collective of the journal Mediations. Current projects include a book on the cultural politics of oil, an edited collection on energy and culture, and research on the aesthetics and politics of contemporary documentary film.

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