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Politics and Popular Culture

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This essay explores the political dimensions of popular culture, and how those dimensions transfer into and out of actual political debates, providing a understanding of the broader connection between the study of politics and popular culture. Specific attention is paid to the influence of industrialization on the expansion of and access to culture. The essay also analyzes more contemporary approaches to understanding popular culture, through melodrama, science fiction, and perspectives on gender and sexualty.

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Notes

  1. Liesbet van Zoonen, Entertaining the Citizen: When Politics and Popular Culture Converge, (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), p. 3.

  2. Walter Benjamin,“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” in The Continental Aesthetics Reader, ed. Clive Cazeaux, (New York: Routledge, 1936).

  3. Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”

  4. Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, translated by John Cumming, (New York: Verso Books, 1972), p. 120.

  5. Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren, editors, Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture and Presidential Politics, (Louisville, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012), p.3-5.

  6. Elisabeth R. Anker, Orgies of Feelings: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom, (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), p. 3.

  7. Anker, p. 2.

  8. Ibid., p. 2.

  9. Ibid., p. 35.

  10. Justin S. Vaughn and Lilly J. Goren, editors. Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture and Presidential Politics. (Louisville, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2012), p. 3.

  11. Vaughn and Goren, p. 7.

  12. Michael A. Allen and Justin S. Vaughn, Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction, (New York: Routledge, 2016), p. 3.

  13. Andi Zeisler, Feminism and Popular Culture (Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008), p. 7.

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Goren, L.J. Politics and Popular Culture. Soc 53, 482–486 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0053-1

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