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Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
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Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
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by Henry Jenkins and Henry Jenkins
Sales Rank: 426215
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List Price: $34.95
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Paperback: 748 pages
Publisher: Duke University Press January 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0822327376
ISBN-13: 978-0822327370
Product Dimensions:
10 x 7 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
Product Review
“[A]n introduction to cultural studies unlike any I have read before. . . . [R]evolutionary.”
--Alan McKee, M/C Reviews
“Does the phrase ‘academics and popular culture’ evoke terrifying thoughts of impenetrable essays on the semiotics of Madonna lyrics? The editors of Hop on Pop want you to know that cultural studies has gotten a lot more user-friendly over the last decade. Adapting a phrase from cyperpunk writer Bruce Sterling, they write that today’s cultural scholars ‘engage with popular culture as the culture that “sticks to the skin.”’”
--Jennifer Howard, Washington Post
"[A] complicated and enlivening work. . . . [T]he pleasures and politics of popular culture are deftly explored in this book. . . ."
--Charles Fairchild, Australasian Journal of American Studies
Book Description
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist grassroots politics, these writers
challenge old modes of studying the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and sketch a new and lively vocabulary for the field of cultural studies.
The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including pro wrestling, the computer games Myst and Doom, soap operas, baseball card collecting, the Tour de France, karaoke, lesbian desire in the Wizard of Oz, Internet fandom for the series Babylon 5, and the stress-management industry. Broader themes examined include the origins of popular culture, the aesthetics and politics of performance, and the social and
cultural processes by which objects and practices are deemed tasteful or tasteless. The commitment that binds the contributors is to an emergent perspective in cultural studies, one that engages with popular culture as the culture that "sticks to the skin," that becomes so much a part of us that it becomes increasingly difficult to examine it from a distance. By refusing to deny or rationalize their own often contradictory identifications with popular culture, the contributors ensure that the volume as a whole reflects the immediacy and vibrancy of its objects of study.
Hop on Pop will appeal to those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader.
Contributors. John Bloom, Gerry Bloustein, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Diane Brooks, Peter Chvany, Elana Crane, Alexander Doty, Rob Drew, Stephen Duncombe, Nick Evans, Eric Freedman, Joy Fuqua, Tony Grajeda, Katherine Green, John Hartley, Heather Hendershot, Henry Jenkins, Eithne Johnson, Louis Kaplan, Maria Koundoura, Sharon Mazer, Anna McCarthy, Tara McPherson, Angela Ndalianis, Edward O’Neill, Catherine Palmer, Roberta Pearson, Elayne Rapping, Eric Schaefer, Jane Shattuc, Greg Smith, Ellen Strain, Matthew Tinkhom, William Uricchio, Amy Villarego, Robyn Warhol, Charles Weigl, Alan Wexelblat, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Why more people don't know his name is beyond me. Maybe its because of his haircut? In all seriousness, reading the man's work is like waking up and realizing that you've been dreaming. He lifts the veil off the world we live in, the media stream that we swim in, and he illuminates its basic nature better than anyone I have ever read. He also has the great advantage of not being a "fogey", in other words he's not mystified by popular culture, he UNDERSTANDS it. He KNOWS why we like certain videogames and movies and doesn't berate the world for it, rather he simply looks at the underpinnings of those desires. Great stuff. Read all his works - and then visit VIDEOTOPIA because Professor Jenkins references it and it's cool.
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