Introduction to Studying Popular Culture

<p>How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?<br><em>An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture</em> provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted and suggests how it may be more usefully studied.<br>Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives.</p>