[Commlist] New Book Publication: Pop Culture for Beginners

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Subject: 	[CULTSTUD-L] New Book Publication: Pop Culture for Beginners
Date: 	Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:48:03 +0000
From: 	Weinstock, Jeffrey A <(weins1ja /at/ CMICH.EDU)>
Reply-To: 	A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies <(CULTSTUD-L /at/ LISTS.UMN.EDU)>
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Weinstock, Jeffrey A is pleased to announce that a new textbook, /Pop 
Culture for Beginners/, has now been published by Broadview. Examination 
copies  may be requested at 
https://broadviewpress.com/product/pop-culture-for-beginners/#tab-description 
<https://broadviewpress.com/product/pop-culture-for-beginners/#tab-description>

/Pop Culture for Beginners/ promotes reflective engagement with the 
world around us and provides tools for thinking critically about how 
meaning is created, reinforced, and circulated. Privileging a semiotic 
approach, the book’s first part, “The Pop Culture Toolbox,” outlines the 
development of pop culture studies; explains the semiotic framework; 
introduces students to a variety of critical lenses including Marxism, 
feminism, postcolonialism, and Critical Race Theory; and then offers an 
overview of pop culture “pivot points,” including authenticity, 
intersectionality, intertextuality, and subculture. The book’s second 
part provides a series of units, prepared in consultation with subject 
area experts, built around topics central to popular culture studies: 
television and film, music, comics, gaming, social media, and fandom.


Each chapter includes “Your Turn” activities and discussion questions, 
as well as possible assignments and suggestions for further reading. The 
chapters in part two also include questions as beginning points for 
thinking critically and readings demonstrating relevant scholarly 
approaches to popular culture. Important vocabulary terms are included 
in a substantive glossary at the end.


      Comments

“Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock introduces readers to the study of popular 
culture with characteristic insight, humor, and depth. The book is 
packed with wide-ranging examples and provocative questions. Students 
will quickly discover the pleasures of reflecting on the kinds of things 
many of us are consuming every day, and will benefit from the 
intelligent and accessible overviews of major cultural theories. The 
book also invites students to reflect on emerging trends or newly 
discovered favorites. It is truly an excellent book.” — Carl Sederholm, 
Brigham Young University, Editor, /The Journal of American Culture/

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“/Pop Culture for Beginners/ is an excellent introductory textbook that 
encourages students not only to critically analyze popular culture but 
also to have fun doing so. Weinstock asks meaningful questions to get 
students to start looking at popular culture artifacts with an eye 
toward detail and analysis, rather than just taking popular culture for 
granted and mindlessly consuming it. The text provides the tools for 
critical engagement with popular culture, including a variety of types 
of critical theory and examples of analysis. Students should come away 
from the book with a greater sense of agency in regard to the culture 
surrounding them.” — Alyson Buckman, California State University, Sacramento


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