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Topographies of Popular Culture

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Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture's topographies.

In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatiality in the field of critical theory, and from such global transformations as the processes and after-effects of decolonisation and globalisation. It contemplates the spatiality of genre and the interactions between the local and the global, as well as the increasing circulation and adaptation of popular texts across the globe. The ten individual chapters analyse the spaces of popular culture at a scale that extends from an individual's everyday experience to genuinely global questions, offering new theoretical and analytical insights into the relation between spatiality and the popular.

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ISBN: 9781443894739
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Author: Maarit Piipponen, Markku Salmela
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Format: Hardback
Genres: Cultural studies