Popular Culture and Everyday Life

Name: Popular Culture and Everyday Life
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
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By: Toby Miller, Alec W McHoul

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Hardcover | 17 December 1998

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240 Pages

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24.13 x 16.51 x 2.54

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This text offers a broad-ranging survey of social and cultural theory while issuing a challenge to contemporary cultural studies' emphasis on speculation, rather than observation. The authors invite readers to question their participation in both dominant and sub-cultural practices by providing perspectives on the everyday through ethnography, textual reading, discourse analysis and political economy. Following a summary of key ideas on everyday practice, such as "eating" or "talking", each chapter considers the discourses that construct these practices, and concludes with one or more empirical investigation. By acknowledging the historical specificity and mundane character of popular culture and everyday life, and by looking at everyday practices in their own right, rather than as merely representations of something else, the authors seek to open up the possibility of a significant departure in cultural studies.

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`Taking on such topics as sport, therapy, food, and conversation, McHoul and Miller perform the impressive feat of rethinking the study of popular culture whilst also explaining difficult theoretical concepts. This is a clever book which will give students important new tools for understanding the meaning of the everyday in their lives' - Marita Sturken, University of Southern California

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