Danesi, M. Popular
culture: Introductory perspectives. Lanham, USA: Rowman and
Littlefield.
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'Modern-day pop culture [...] is a mass culture, spread widely
through the mass media and mass communications technologies. Pop culture would
not have become so widespread without the partnership that it has always had
with the mass media.'
Key
terms: popular
culture, mass culture, mass media, mass communication, high brow low brow, high
culture low culture
Summary:
Popular culture –
enjoyed/ a pastime/ social value/ exchange between people
Lowbrow (less exclusive
value) vs. highbrow (elitism)
Zeitgeist
Mainstream/ widespread/
mass culture + communication / artistic value
Graphic Designs role in
the mass media of popular culture – e.g. television (documentaries,
advertisement of bands/ clothing) – promotion, styles (e.g. psychedelic hippies
of 60s, punk rock in the 70s) current day sitcoms like South Park and Family
Guy show same trends of the ‘unconscious need for the profane that has always
existed in human cultures across time’
Relevant books (Google and from LCA library):
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p129 chapter
7 of ‘Ways of Seeing’ by John Berger
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‘Popular
Culture: Introductory Perspectives’ by Marcel Danesi
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‘The Myth of
Popular Culture: From Dante to Dylan’ by Perry Meisel
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‘Highbrow/Lowbrow’
by Lawrence W. LEVINE
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‘100
Entertainers Who Changed America: An Encyclopaedia of Pop Culture’ edited by
Robert C. Sickels Bob Dylan p179-181
Scholarly articles:
https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-148368999/cultural-curriculum-studies-multiplicity-and-cinematic-machines
file:///Users/Sam/Downloads/12625-22934-1-PB.pdf
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/popularculture(jan12)web.pdf
http://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/articles/fall_2002/browne.htm
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1350508408093652
Websites:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/2/6/a-time-when-popular-culture-included/ - summaries Levine’s book on high/low brow
Videos:
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