Interrogating Popular Culture

Key Questions

Stacy Takacs

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Routledge
03 October 2014

Literary studies: general; Popular culture; TV & society

Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, addressing:

Definitions: What is popular culture? How has it developed over time? What functions does it serve?

Method: What is a proper object of study? How should we analyze and interpret popular texts and practices?

Influence: How does popular culture relate to social power and control?

Identity and disposition: How do we relate to popular culture? How does it move and connect us?

Environment: How does popular culture shape the ways we think, feel and act in the world?

Illustrated with a wide variety of case studies, covering everything from medieval spectacle to reality TV, sports fandom and Youtube, Interrogating Popular Culture gives students a theoretically rich analytical toolkit for understanding the complex relationship between popular culture, identity and society.

By: Stacy Takacs
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 187mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780415841191
ISBN 10: 0415841194
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 03 October 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions

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