Ingram Publisher Services UK

Publication date:

12 October 2016

Length of book:

290 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

238x162mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781498523929

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Not Another Pop Culture Series! Studying the World(s) We Occupy
by Andrew F. Herrmann and Art Herbig
Chapter 1: Queering Popular Culture
by Tony E. Adams
Chapter 2: CultPopCulture: Reconsidering the Popular Culture Framework via the Engage, Adapt, and Transform (EAT) Model
by Bob Batchelor
Chapter 3: “Saving People. Hunting Things. The Family Business”: Organizational Communication Approaches to Popular Culture
by Andrew F. Herrmann
Chapter 4: Who's the Boss? Leadership in the Popular Imagination
by Eric M. Eisenberg
Chapter 5: In Space … Our Worst Will Make Us Scream: Reality Reflected in the Cultural Artifact Alien
by Adam W. Tyma
Chapter 6: Music’s Pervasive and Persuasive Role in Popular Culture
by Deanna Sellnow
Chapter 7: Politics and Popular Culture
by Trevor Parry-Giles, Will P. Howell, and Devin Scott
Chapter 8: Public Relations Representations in Popular Culture: A ‘Scandal’ on Primetime Television
by Cheryl Ann Lambert, Jessalynn Strauss, and Natalie T. J. TindallChapter 9: Critical Rhetoric and Popular Culture: Examining Rhetoric’s Relationship to the Popular
by Art Herbig
Chapter 10: “Prison is bullshit”: An Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Representations of the Prison Industrial Complex in Orange is the New Black
by Michelle Kelsey Kearl
Chapter 11: Polymediating the Post: Reclaiming Feminism in Popular Culture
by Danielle M. Stern and Krista Catalfamo
Chapter 12: Thinking Conjuncturally about Countercultures
by Lawrence Grossberg
Chapter 13: Rethinking Studies of Relationships and Popular Culture: Notes on Approach, Method, and (Meta)Theory
by Jimmie Manning
Chapter 14: Public Opponents Cooperating: Possibilities for Dialogue in Popular Culture Controversies
by Rob Anderson and Kenneth N. Cissna
Chapter 15: “You Don't Know Me”: Portrayals of Black Fatherhood and Husbandhood in T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle
by Siobhan E. Smith, Ryessia Jones, and Johnny Jones
Chapter 16: Video Gaming: Aggressively Social
by Robert Andrew Dunn
Chapter 17: Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Dialoguing Difference Starting Difficult Conversations in the Communication Classroom
by Kristen L. McCauliff and Katherine J. Denker
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors

Andrew F. Herrmann and Art Herbig provide an exciting collection of essays with their edited series Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture. From fan culture to polymediation to the personal, interpersonal, and political ways by which we engage in popular culture, this book offers cutting edge theoretical and methodological research at the intersection of popular culture and communication scholarship.