{"product_id":"pop-culture-for-beginners-9781554815654","title":"Pop Culture for Beginners","description":"\"Comics, sports, Twitter, cosplay, Netflix--we are all experts in aspects of popular culture, even if we may be beginners to cultural studies. Pop Culture for Beginners is a friendly, readable introduction to popular culture's theoretical approaches. The book shows how cultural theory can be applied to a variety of popular culture manifestations, while also showing how the approaches can be extended to other texts and media. It brings together in one place theoretical approaches and applications, and extends consideration of popular culture to areas neglected in other textbooks--notably fandom, comics, social media, and gaming. Examples, exercises, case studies, and sample essays are included throughout.\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeffrey Andrew Weinstock\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, an Associate Editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts\u003c\/em\u003e, and the host of the long-running internet goth\/industrial radio broadcast, \u003cem\u003eDJ cypher's Dark Nation Radio\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author or editor of 25 books on questionable topics ranging from \u003cem\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/em\u003e to Edgar Allan Poe. These include \u003cem\u003eThe Mad Scientist's Guide to Composition\u003c\/em\u003e (Broadview), \u003cem\u003eThe Monster Theory Reader\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Minnesota Press), \u003cem\u003eAnd Now For Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kate Egan, Manchester UP), \u003cem\u003eThe Rocky Horror Picture Show\u003c\/em\u003e (Wallflower Press), \u003cem\u003eGiving the Devil His Due: Satan and Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (with Regina Hansen, Fordham UP), \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Lovecraft\u003c\/em\u003e (with Carl Sederholm, Minnesota), \u003cem\u003eGoth Music: From Sound to Subculture\u003c\/em\u003e (with Isabella van Elferen, Routledge), \u003cem\u003eThe Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters\u003c\/em\u003e (Ashgate), and \u003cem\u003eThe Vampire Film: Undead Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (Wallflower). Visit him at JeffreyAndrewWeinstock.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Broadview Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724813668626,"sku":"9781554815654","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_50124e1f-aa0d-4c3f-b441-512892cf1f9e.jpg?v=1734809836","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pop-culture-for-beginners-9781554815654","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}