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Gingrich Library: Hip Hop Resource Guide: PopCulture
Africa in the American Imagination by Carol MageeIn the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9781617031526
Publication Date: 2012-01-24
Black Women and Popular Culture by Adria Y. GoldmanWith the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues provides such a comprehensive analysis. Using an array of theoretical frameworks and methodologies, this collection features cutting edge research from scholars interested in the relationship among media, society, perceptions, and Black women.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 0739192299
Publication Date: 2014-08-01
Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn by Elana Levine (Editor)Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780252039577
Publication Date: 2015-09-30
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, And Popular Culture by Jeffrey A. BrownDangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type, the action heroine, as an example of, and challenge to, existing theories about gender as a performance identity.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9781604737141
Publication Date: 2011-01-07
Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture by Erica Chito ChildsThere is no teasing apart what interracial couples think of themselves from what society shows them about themselves. Following on her earlier ground-breaking study of the social worlds of interracial couples, Erica Chito Childs considers the larger context of social messages, conveyed by the media, that inform how we think about love across the color line. Examining a range of media_from movies to music to the web_Fade to Black and White offers an informative and provocative account of how the perception of interracial sexuality as 'deviant' has been transformed in the course of the 20th century and how race relations are understood today.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780742560796
Publication Date: 2009-06-16
In Search of the Black Fantastic by Richard ItonPrior to the 1960s, when African Americans had little access to formal political power, black popular culture was commonly seen as a means of forging community and effecting political change.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 0199720835
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
Making Camp by Helene A. Shugart; Catherine Egley WaggonerMaking Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 9780817316075
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
The Myth of Popular Culture by Perry MeiselThe Myth of Popular Culture from Dante to Dylan is a fascinating examination of the cultural traditions of the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music which leads us to redefine our concept of the division between "high" and "low" culture.
Call Number: Online Acess
ISBN: 9781405199339
Publication Date: 2009-12-30
Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Identity by Jason DittmerThis innovative and engaging textbook is the first to survey the field of popular geopolitics, exploring the relationship between popular culture and international relations from a geographical perspective. Each chapter focuses on a specific concept—defining it, considering key debates, and offering a concrete case study such as first-person-shooter video games, blogging, and comic books.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1283213613
Publication Date: 2011-08-12
Popular Culture in a New Age by Marshall FishwickThis book redefines popular culture in the light of the revolutionary changes brought about by the information revolution and the digital divide. It explores the phenomenal growth and extension of popular culture in the last decade and ties in the vast changes brought about by technology and the Internet. In an era when American television and the Internet reach virtually every corner of the globe, Popular Culture in a New Age shows how the poorly understood and often underestimated area known as popular culture affects all of our lives.
Call Number: Online Access
ISBN: 1315865114
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
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Unpopular Culture by Martin Lüthe (Editor); Sascha Pöhlmann (Editor)This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates beyond the dichotomy of high culture and mass culture and yet offers a fresh approach to both, these essays address a multitude of different topics that can all be classified as unpopular culture.
ISBN: 9789089649669
Publication Date: 2017-02-15
Imagining the Global by Fabienne Darling-WolfBased on a series of case studies of globally distributed media and their reception in different parts of the world, Imagining the Global reflects on what contemporary global culture can teach us about transnational cultural dynamics in the 21st century.
ISBN: 9780472072439
Publication Date: 2014-12-22
Making Sense of Suburbia Through Popular Culture by Rupa HuqWe all know what suburbia is, indeed the majority of us live in it. Yet, despite this ubituity, with no formal definition of the contept, the suburbs have developed in our collective imagination through representations in popular culture, from Terry and June to Desparate Housewives.
Rupa Huq examines how suburbia has been depicted in novels, cinema, popular music and on television, charting changing trends both in the suburbs and popular media consumption and production.