Come on Down?
Come On Down? presents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. The essays in this collection discuss the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood, and appreciated, while addressing key analytical issues and some of\ its most important forms and processes.\ Published here for the first time, the essays in Come On Down? analyze some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions: soap operas, game shows, children's television, popular...
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Come On Down? presents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. The essays in this collection discuss the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood, and appreciated, while addressing key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. Published here for the first time, the essays in Come On Down? analyze some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions: soap operas, game shows, children's television, popular music, comedy, advertising in the media, consumerism, and Americanization and popular culture in Britain. The diversity of both subject matter and argument is the most distinctive feature of this collection, making it a much-needed and accessible, interdisciplinary introduction to the study of popular media culture. The contributors, many of them leading figures in their respective areas of study, represent a number of different approaches which themselves reflect the diversity and promise of contemporary theoretical debate. Their studies encompass issues such as the economics of popular culture, its textual complexity, and its interpretations by audiences, as well as concepts such as ideology, material culture, and postmodernism.
Notes on contributorsIntroduction: Come on down? - popular culture today11Homeward Bound: Leisure, popular culture and consumer capitalism92The taste of America: Americanization and popular culture in Britain463The impossibility of Best: Enterprise meets domesticity in the practical women's magazines of the 1980s824From the East End to EastEnders: Representations of the working class, 1890-19901165British soaps in the 1980s1336'One I made earlier': Media, popular culture and the politics of childhood1507The price is right but the moments are sticky: Television, quiz and game shows, and popular culture1798Embedded persuasions: The fall and rise of integrated advertising2029'You're nicked!': Television police series and the fictional representation of law and order23210You've never had it so silly: The politics of British satirical comedy from Beyond the Fringe to Spitting Image25411A 'divine gift to inspire'?: Popular cultural representation, nationhood and the British monarchy28512Shock waves: The authoritative response to popular music30213Digging for Britain: An excavation in seven parts325Index378
