Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415063264 ISBN 13: 9780415063265

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consumerism and Americanization. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of the collection, making it a much-needed and extremely accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debates. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture and postmodernism.

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About the Author

Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415063264
• ISBN 13: 9780415063265
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 404
• Editor: Strinati Dominic, Wagg Stephen