{"product_id":"pop-culture-for-beginners-paperback","title":"Pop Culture for Beginners - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePop Culture for Beginners\u003c\/em\u003e promotes reflective engagement with the world around us and provides tools for thinking critically about how meaning is created, reinforced, and circulated. Privileging a semiotic approach, the book's first part, \"The Pop Culture Toolbox,\" outlines the development of pop culture studies; explains the semiotic framework; introduces students to a variety of critical lenses including Marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory; and then offers an overview of pop culture \"pivot points,\" including authenticity, intersectionality, intertextuality, and subculture. The book's second part provides a series of units, prepared in consultation with subject area experts, built around topics central to popular culture studies: television and film, music, comics, gaming, social media, and fandom. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach chapter includes \"Your Turn\" activities and discussion questions, as well as possible assignments and suggestions for further reading. The chapters in part two also include questions as beginning points for thinking critically and readings demonstrating relevant scholarly approaches to popular culture. Important vocabulary terms are included in a substantive glossary at the end. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, an Associate Editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts\u003c\/em\u003e, and the host of the long-running internet goth\/industrial radio broadcast, \u003cem\u003eDJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author or editor of 25 books on questionable topics ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/em\u003e to Edgar Allan Poe. These include \u003cem\u003eThe Mad Scientist's Guide to Composition\u003c\/em\u003e (Broadview), \u003cem\u003eThe Monster Theory Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Minnesota Press), \u003cem\u003eAnd Now For Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kate Egan, Manchester UP), \u003cem\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/em\u003e (Wallflower Press), \u003cem\u003eGiving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (with Regina Hansen, Fordham UP), \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Lovecraft\u003c\/em\u003e (with Carl Sederholm, Minnesota), \u003cem\u003eGoth Music: From Sound to Subculture\u003c\/em\u003e (with Isabella van Elferen, Routledge), \u003cem\u003eThe Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate), and \u003cem\u003eThe Vampire Film: Undead Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (Wallflower). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.9 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42735596896319,"sku":"9781554815654","price":84.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/51fc3df223f6444546a14181fd0a7fae.webp?v=1765144017","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/pop-culture-for-beginners-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}