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Freccero, Carla

 
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The concise introduction to the study of popular culture

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom.

Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.

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Carla Freccero is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz

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Blending music, science fiction and film, this is a study of why and how popular culture is taught in American classrooms. The author sets out to show that an informed awareness of politics, race and sexuality is essential to any understanding of the subject. He places rap music, the "Alien" trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics and technoculture, in an attempt to show students how they can draw on their existing literacies and on the cultures they know, in order to think critically.

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