Re-reading Popular Culture

<i>Re-reading Popular Culture</i> is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.<br /> <ul class=”noindent”> <li>Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity<br /> </li> <li>Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children’s television and games<br /> </li> <li>Clearly and accessibly written for the student, scholar, and general reader.</li> </ul>