Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Popular Culture : Introductory Perspectives, Paperback / softback Book

Popular Culture : Introductory Perspectives Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Item not Available

Description

For courses in popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media. Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers.

We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating to love it.

Danesi's text shows us how popular culture validates our common experiences and affects our daily lives. The fourth edition of Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives features a fully updated text with new material on celebrity in the digital age.

Marcel Danesi delves into the social structures that have led to the emergence and spread of pop culture, showing how it validates our common experiences and offering a variety of perspectives on its many modes of delivery into our everyday lives.

The text expands the illustration program and adds teaching ancillaries on an accompanying website. Features of the Fourth Edition:-The most accessible popular culture textbook on the market-Helpfully organized by technology and medium -Provides new material tracing pop culture from medieval performances and texts, to the role of opera and carnivals and circuses to our present media rich culture-Adds new sections on nature of popularity and a new section on nano-celebrities-Features 50 illustrations-All new ancillary site with power points for instructor use

Information

Other Formats

Save 6%

£41.00

£38.35

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information