Interrogating Popular Culture

by Stacy Takacs

Interrogating Popular Key Questions offers an accessible introduction to the study of popular culture, both historical and contemporary. Beginning from the assumption that cultural systems are dynamic, contradictory, and hard to pin down, Stacy Takacs explores the field through a survey of important questions, Illustrated with a wide variety of case studies, covering everything from medieval spectacle to reality TV, sports fandom and Youtube, Interrogating Popular Culture gives students a theoretically rich analytical toolkit for understanding the complex relationship between popular culture, identity and society.

268 pages, Paperback

First published September 23, 2014

About the author

Stacy Takacs is an associate professor of American Studies at Oklahoma State University and has published widely on the televisual mediation of war, economics, politics, and globalization.