The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining

Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and anal

Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since

A third edition of this book is now available. Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular p

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