Popular Culture : : An Introduction / / Carla A. Freccero.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Freccero, Carla A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Popular Culture: An Introduction --; 2 Cultural Studies, Popular Culture, and Pedagogy --; 3 Sexual Subcultures --; 4 Identity Politics and Postcoloniality --; 5 Multiculturalism’s Migrations --; 6 Technocultures --; Appendix: Sample Syllabus --; Notes --; Glossary --; Filmography --; Discography --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780814771648; 9783110716924
• DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814771648.001.0001
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carla A. Freccero.

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.