num_pages: 304
description: An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture in modern societies. Among the theories and ideas the book introduces mann culture the Frankfurt School and the culture industry semiology and structuralism Marxism feminism postmodernism and cultural populism. This new edition provides fresh material on Marxism and feminism while a new final chapter assesses the significance of the theories explained in the book.
language: English
title: An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture
publisher: Routledge