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Popular / Mass Culture Studies |
Academy of Leisure Studies |
Bibliography: Consumer Culture and Leisure (Don Slater, U. London) |
Karen Burns, "Zones of Theory and Amusement: Video Arcades and Luna Park" (1996) (Globe E-Journal) |
Consumer Culture Research Site (Don Slater, Goldsmiths C., U. London) |
The Culture of Celebrity: An Annotated Bibliography of Critical Writings (David Blake, The College of New Jersey) |
Digital Nostalgia (a "high-tech memory lane" of now antique computer games) (Marc Sakey) |
Fashion (from the view of Baudrillard, Marx, Freud) (part of U. Florida Fetish project) |
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Joanne Finkelstein (Monash U.), |
Ruth Barcan (U. Western Sydney), Response (1997) |
Jennifer Craik (Griffith U.), "Chic to Chic" (1997) |
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Henry A. Giroux (Pennsylvania State U.) |
"Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy" |
"Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education" (1994) (JAC Online) |
H-PCAACA Discussion Group |
Josh Kun, "Reading, Writing, & Rap: Literacy as Rap Sound System" (1994) (Bad Subjects) |
Tony Lack, "Consumer Society and Authenticity: The (Il)logic of Punk Practices" (Undercurrent) |
Manchester Institute for Popular Culture Website (Manchester Metropolitan U.) |
Robin Markowitz, "Canonizing the Popular" |
The McDonaldization of Society (brief digest of the "MacDonaldization" thesis for a course page) (Robert O. Keel, U. Missouri, St. Louis) |
Hugh Miller (Nottingham Trent U., UK), "The Social Psychology of Objects" (1995) |
Steve Mizrach, "Iterative Discourse and the Formation of New Subcultures" (essay using subcultural studies approach to discuss "hackers," "techno/ravers," and "modern primitives") |
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. No longer do |
Pop Culture (Communication Studies, U. Iowa) |
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) |
Repetition: The David Bowie Critical Analysis Page (essays on Bowie, his music, art, films, etc.) |
Retro: The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture (motto: "anything that was ever cool") |
Steven Shaviro (U. Washington), Doom Patrols ("theoretical fiction about postmodernism and popular culture"; full text of book) |
Kim Stone (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Of Patented Ladybugs and Beneficial Nematodes: The Organic Garden as Foucauldian Heterotopia" (1997) (Thresholds) |
Stuart Hall (see above) |
Thomas Swiss (Drake U.), Youth Music and Culture (course) |
U. Iowa Communication Studies Resources: Pop Culture ("articles about pop culture") |
Undercurrent: An Online Journal for the Analysis of the Present |
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