304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of... Read more
Introduction Part I Theoretical politics 1 Populism and ordinary culture 2 Trajectories of cultural populism Part II Analytical objects 3 Youth culture and consumption 4 Popular television Part III Contemporary issues 5 Dilemmas of culture and politics 6 Anomie of the people
Biography
Jim McGuigan lectures in Communication Studies at Coventry University.
