1. What is Popular Culture? 2. Is Popular Culture Modern? 3. What is the Function of Popular Culture? 4. What is the Object of Popular Culture Study? 5. What are the Politics of Popular Culture? 6. How is Popular Culture Made and Valued? 7. How Do We Relate to Popular Culture? 8. How Does Popular Culture Move Us? 9. Is There a Global Popular Culture? 10. Does Popular Culture Make Us Smarter or Dumber? Glossary
Biography
Stacy Takacs is Associate Professor and Director of American Studies at Oklahoma State University. She is also the author of Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America.
"This is the Introduction to Pop Culture text that I’ve been waiting for! A great blending of theory and practice organized around essential questions rather than genres, it offers thought-provoking interrogation of contemporary examples from across the pop culture spectrum. I look forward to using it in my intro Pop Culture class." —Dr. Tony Harkins, Director, Popular Culture Studies program, Western Kentucky University
"Stacy Takacs' new book teaches in the best way, by asking questions and encouraging readers to ask their own questions of popular culture. Interrogating Popular Culture ranges confidently far and wide in its historical and geographical scope, from Ancient Roman spectacles to The Hunger Games trilogy. Takacs' tone—lively, convincing and real—will engage and inform student readers, inviting them to become critical scholars of their own popular culture." —Will Brooker, Kingston University
