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	The study of popular culture
		Instead they tried to describe culture as a whole as a complex formation of discourses which indeed correspond to particular interests, and which indeed can be dominated by specific groups, but which also always are dialectically related to their producers and consumers.
		In this way the study of popular culture involves the use of methodologies from both the humanities and the social sciences in the effort to interpret expressive cultural forms, specifically those that are widely disseminated in a group (that is, that are popular) as part of dynamic social intercourse.
		Popular culture scholars study these created, expressive and artistic materials as their primary data, much as literary scholars take the novel or the sonnet as their primary data.
	www.jahsonic.com /PopularCultureTheory.html (4455 words)

	Women in Popular Culture
		What often separates popular culture studies from general cultural studies is the extent to which the context (worldviews, attitudes, thoughts, opinions, and lifestyles) of the people who make the art are taken into consideration in studying or evaluating it.
		Often popular culture by or for women is mocked (as in the case of romance novels for instance) or less feministic (or pro-woman) than it might seem to be at first (as in the case of female superheroes on television).
		Many popular expressive spiritual activities of women continue to be studied and appreciated by scholars of popular culture (as well as those in folklore, religious studies, sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies).
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~mmagouli/popculture.htm (1867 words)

	Popular culture studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular culture studies is the academic discipline studying popular culture.
		Academic discussions on popular culture started as soon as contemporary mass society formed itself and the views on popular culture that were developed then still influence contemporary popular culture studies.
		This illustrates a frequent strategy: the legitimation of popular fiction on the basis of its use of canonized literary fiction, and of the legitimized public's response to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_culture_studies (3214 words)

	CultureCentric - a multicultural hub
		As Andrew Ross (1989:5) writes, a history of popular culture is also a history of intellectuals, of cultural experts whose self-assigned task it is to define the borders between the popular and the legitimate.
		Culture theory is the branch of anthropology that seeks to define the heuristic concept of culture in operational and/or scientific terms...
		Cultural studies combines sociology, social theory, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena...
	www.culturecentric.com /studies/pop.html (2903 words)

	American Studies::Popular Culture
		In fact, the value and the implications of American popular culture have been, and continue to be, a matter of intense debate and disagreement.
		The popular culture concentration offers students a chance to explore the rich and complex questions that arise in attempting to account for the role of popular culture in America.
		The second consists of courses that are organized around a more specialized aspect of popular culture as well as courses that deal only in part with popular culture but establish useful contexts within which to see the various interactions between popular culture and elite culture.
	condor.depaul.edu /~american/program/popular.html (513 words)

	Popular culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Popular culture, or pop culture, (literally: "the culture of the people") consists of the cultural elements that prevail (at least numerically) in any given society, mainly using the more popular media, in that society's vernacular language and/or an established lingua franca.
		Historically, commentators on culture defined the term "popular culture" in negative terms as those parts or expressions of culture not accepted into the cultural milieu of the social élite (such as courts, the nobility, patricians or the rich bourgeoisie), nor in an institutionalized context (such as professional theatre, church liturgy, military life).
		Some charge that popular culture tends to endorse a limited understanding and experience of life through common, unsophisticated feelings and attitudes and its emphasis on the banal, the superficial, the capricious and the disposable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Popular_culture (1609 words)

	What are Popular Culture Studies?
		Popular Culture Studies have come to consist of those scholarly inquiries which deal with the customs, artifacts, events, myths, language, and the like that are shared by a significant portion of a culture or sub-culture.
		When scholars study such a culture, or sub-culture, they may focus on the people who share the attitudes, myths, languages, artifacts, or the like, or they may examine features of the culture, its history, or the phenomenon itself.
		Scholars of popular culture find such common--one might even say trivial--matters worth serious study, for they believe these matters reflect the values, convictions, and the patterns of thought and feeling generally dispersed through, and approved by, a significant portion of the culture in which they occur.
	pcasacas.org /Pages/pcaswhat.htm (404 words)

	Hot TOpic - Popular Culture
		Popular culture studies is the scholarly investigation of expressive forms widely disseminated in society.
		Popular culture studies differs from traditional humanities studies in that it recognizes the existence of alternative systems of aesthetics which guide the creation of popular materials and the evaluation of those materials by an audience.
		Center for the Study of Popular Culture: David Horowitz and Peter Collier are nationally known writers, editors, and political commentators whose intellectual development has evolved from early, influential support for the New Left and Black Panther movements to the forefront of neoconservatism.
	www.lib.uwo.ca /weldon/news/hottopics/archive2003/march03.shtml (4186 words)

	POPULAR CULTURE AND CULTURE STUDIES
		The first comprehensive study of how images of male beauty are projected onto society, Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture examines the role media and society play in creating the image of the idealized male.
		The result of this multidisciplinary investigation is a mosaic spanning sociology and psychology, and organization and communication studies.
		It focuses in particular on the contribution of cultural studies to the understanding of media, communications and popular cultures in contemporary societies.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /cmx/books/1999-3/pop_culture.htm (1629 words)

	Cultural Studies/Popular Culture Studies Webquest
		Cultural Studies is an important intellectual movement that arose in the latter part of the twentieth century, and which had significant origins in curriculum studies and other educational research efforts.
		Nowadays, I would say that cultural studies has exploded into an interdisciplinary interrogation of the ways that people make meanings out of the materials of culture that permeate and mediate their life experiences.
		There is much overlap among cultural studies, ethnographic studies of youth, popular culture studies, media studies, post-colonial studies, literature, sociology, and those broad perspectives on curriculum that we have talked about that take everything in life as a kind of curriculum.
	gargoyle.arcadia.edu /appelbaum/culturalstudieswebquest.htm (892 words)

	American Popular Culture
		Richly detailed study of the rise of American advertising in the context of later 19th and early 20th century American culture.
		Incisive study of various musical ethnic subcultures and their complex negotiations with the dominant culture and their co-resisters in a global/local struggle over meaning.
		Wide-ranging study of the culture industries of the early 20th century, with particular emphasis on the role they played for immigrant workers.
	www.wsu.edu:8080 /~amerstu/pop/popcultbib.html (1693 words)

	Conversation with Professor George Lipsitz \|\| Americana: The Journal Of American Popular Culture 1900-Present
		Professor Lipsitz is virtually a father of Americana: The Institute for the Study of American Popular Culture and this journal.
		I was hearing a great deal of hostility in the field against cultural studies from scholars trained in the myth-image-symbol school, and equally harsh (and unfounded) attacks on post-structuralism and other kinds of "European" cultural theory by scholars trained in the myth-image-symbol and social science traditions.
		Cultural studies scholars and post-structuralists did not appreciate adequately the accomplishments of previous paradigms—the spaces they opened up under difficult conditions.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/spring_2002/lipsitz.htm (2280 words)

	Cultural Studies Central (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Cultural Studies today is a simmering stew of the ideas, voices, and lives of people all over the world.
		Cultural Studies Central is a gathering spot and central clearinghouse where those of us who live and breathe Cultural Studies can go to learn more and do more.
		A splendid praxis of popular culture and theory, theory and popular culture!
	www.culturalstudies.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1510 words)

	Popular Culture
		Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.
		Popular Culture may be defined broadly as expressive practices and performances in daily life.
		Popular culture surrounds our everyday life in the form of the arts (musicliteraturefilm etc)media be a gateway to other popular culture information.
	www.monna.com /art/Cultures/Popular_Culture (747 words)

	World-Wide Web Resources - Popular Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Consortium of Popular Culture Collections in the Midwest, a regional network of libraries which sponsors joint projects to promote pop cultural awareness and enhance local programs, priorities, and strengths.
		Doo Wop Preservation League, striving to educate the masses on the popular culture of the fifties and sixties.
		Studies in Popular Culture, a journal with abstracts and synopsis of articles.
	www.uky.edu /Subject/popcul.html (443 words)

	Conversation with Professor Arthur Asa Berger \|\| Americana: The Journal Of American Popular Culture 1900-Present
		I think American Studies and popular culture studies, as well as a number of other traditional disciplines such as literature, history, sociology, and political science, were saved by the development of cultural studies.
		It’s important to recognize that popular culture is, as I see things, a kind or form or level of culture, and culture is now a dominant concern in the humanities and social sciences.
		I have a cultural studies mystery about identity, Mistake in Identity, that was published in August of 2005, and I self-published (on www.lulu.com) two other mysteries, The Rashomon Case, which is about different interpretations of the film, and Terminal Papers, a detective story that teaches how to write compositions.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/fall_2005/berger.htm (4769 words)

	BGSU ::Departments::Popular Culture
		The Department of Popular Culture is in the College of Arts and Sciences.
		Mission: The Center for Popular Culture Studies promotes the interdisciplinary study of Popular Culture through excellence in teaching, learning, scholarly activity, and engagement with the diverse and multicultural communities of Ohio, the United States, and the world.
		A similar project which reported on the current overall status of popular culture studies at colleges and universities in the United States was conducted by Mark A. Gordon and Jack Nachbar in 1979.This study, Currents of Warm Life: Popular Culture in American Higher Education, was published in 1980.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/popc/page13192.html (801 words)

	Folklore and Popular Culture
		Comparative studies are frequent and there is particular emphasis on religious and supernatural folklore.
		Call number: PN 2.J6 Official publication of the Popular Culture Association and the most substantive journal in popular culture studies.
		Focuses on popular culture, "however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, and events--any material or conceptual conditions of life." Recent issues have featured pieces on "jocktalk in common speech," natural cosmetics, Benetton advertising, popular music, television series, and radio programs.
	www.otal.umd.edu /amst/Research/serial/folk.html (646 words)

	Communication Studies & Popular Culture Courses - University of Central Lancashire
		Communication Studies offers a unique opportunity to analyse all aspects of communication from a variety of academic perspectives and develop expertise in one of the most fundamental elements of human nature.
		Communication Studies is all about the art of “getting through” and this course deals with how, why, where and when we do this.
		The course develops attributes, skills and subject expertise designed to appeal to employers, and which provide students with a solid foundation – in both practical and critical terms – for a wide range of graduate positions in the media, public sector and the cultural and creative industries.
	www.uclan.ac.uk /courses/ug/subjects/communications.htm (162 words)

	Codex: Biblical Studies Blogspot » Popular Culture
		The study was conducted by by two sociologists, Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University, and was for a presentation sponsored by the Social Science Research Council.
		On the question of belief in God, the study notes the “common perception” that professors are atheists and suggests that this view is simply not true.
		While the study found no sector of higher education without believers, there are significant differences by type of institution and discipline.
	biblical-studies.ca /blog/wp/category/popular-culture (1931 words)

	Browne Popular Culture Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Popular fiction predominates, particularly novels in the romance, mystery-detective, science fiction-fantasy, and western genres.
		Popular reference and informational materials (self-help and how-to books, for example) are also in the Library's collections.
		In recognition of their instrumental role in establishing and developing the library, their long-time support, and their generous donations, the Ray and Pat Browne Popular Culture Research Collections at the Browne Library were dedicated in 1986.
	www.bgsu.edu /colleges/library/pcl/pcl2.html (303 words)

	Radio-Television Program at NKU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The minor in Popular Culture Studies offers students an opportunity to explore their cultural environment by examining aspects of cultural artifacts and events relating to their specific interests.
		The program consists of 21 credit hours, including specific popular culture courses taken from the various departments of the university.
		Students interested in the minor must meet the program director prior to declaring the minor to discuss their interest and establish their individual programs and rationale for course selection.
	www.nku.edu /~communicate/popculture.htm (183 words)

	Marshall Fishwick Travel Grants Award
		The Endowment Fund for the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association announces 3 Travel to Popular Culture Collections Grants for 2007 @$750 each.
		The purpose of these grants is to encourage and support research grounded in and based on popular culture and American culture materials and primary sources.
		The grants are named after the late Marshall Fishwick, one of the pioneers in the study of Popular Culture Studies and American Culture Studies who was one of the founders of the Popular Culture Association.
	www.h-net.org /~pcaaca/awards/fishwick.htm (257 words)

	PopCultures.com \| Theorists and Critics
		"Ideology, Discourse, and Cultural Studies: The Contribution of Michel Pêcheux" - Martin Montgomery & Stuart Allan
		Introduction to "Critical Arts: A Journal for Cultural Studies Negotiating Cultural Boundaries: Africa/Asia/Australia" - Ien Ang
		A short history of the study of popular literature and culture: John Fiske
	www.popcultures.com /theorist.htm (887 words)

	VoS - Voice of the Shuttle
		The Culture of Celebrity: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Writings (David Blake, The College of New Jersey)
		Placing (a series of product "epiphanies" demonstrating the thesis that contemporary "placing" [product placements in movies, TV shows, and sporting events] "captures the essence of a new kind of selfhood for the '90s.
		Popular Culture Dept., Bowling Green State U. Postmodern Culture: Pop-Cult Columns (Note: as of 1997 this online journal [including most back issues] is issued through the Johns Hopkins U. Press "Project Muse"; it is now accessible only to users at subscribing institutions)
	vos.ucsb.edu /browse.asp?id=559 (416 words)

	ACRL WSS Core Lists in Women's Studies - Popular Culture
		This list is limited to English-language books focusing on feminist popular culture criticism and theory, images of women in popular culture, and women's relationship with popular culture.
		This list excludes books that are solely about film due to the existence of another core list on this topic.
		OVERLOADED: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE FUTURE OF FEMINISM.
	www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/WomensStudies/core/crpop.htm (609 words)

	History 4/5/79195
		Introduction to Cultural History, Culture Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, American Studies, Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, Woman Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Popular Music Studies.
		This course emphasizes critical reading, writing and classroom discussion of assigned materials chosen to illustrate the intellectual and artistic possibilities in culture and popular culture studies.
		Writing lucidly is an essential ingredient in advanced historical study.
	www.personal.kent.edu /~wkenney/History49195.html (846 words)

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