ABSTRACT
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship.
Specifically, this Companion includes:
- interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular culture;
- wide-ranging case studies;
- discussions of economic and policy underpinnings;
- analysis of textual manifestations of popular culture;
- examinations of political, social, and cultural dynamics; and
- discussions of emerging issues such as ecological sustainability and labor.
Featuring scholarly voices from across six continents, The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture presents a nuanced and wide-ranging survey of popular culture research.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|162 pages
Theories
chapter I 9|9 pages
Roland Barthes's Mythologies
part II|204 pages
Genres
chapter II 17|10 pages
Privatization Is the New Black
chapter II 19|22 pages
The Horrors of Slavery and Modes of Representation in Amistad and 12 Years a Slave
chapter II 20|15 pages
Black Frankenstein and Racial Neoliberalism in Contemporary American Cinema
chapter II 21|15 pages
Nonverbal Signals as Key to Howard Hawks' Cinema
chapter II 27|15 pages
“We Cannot Live in Our Own Neighborhood”
part III|141 pages
Places