Cultural Populism

ISBN-13: 9780415062954 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 304 str.

Jim McGuigan;McGuigan Jim

Opis

This book attempts to provide an understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communication media. The popular sentiments and impulses underlying neo-Gramscian cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An uncritical and exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people's pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression.

Spis treści

Introduction Part I Theoretical politics 1 Populism and ordinary culture 2 Trajectories of cultural populism Part II Analytical objects 3 Youth culture and consumption 4 Popular television Part III Contemporary issues 5 Dilemmas of culture and politics 6 Anomie of the people

O autorze

Jim McGuigan lectures in Communication Studies at Coventry University.