Re-reading Popular Culture

Re-reading Popular Culture......Page 5
contents......Page 7
Preface and acknowledgments......Page 9
Introduction: popular culture/cultural citizenship......Page 13
The citizenship qualities of popular culture......Page 15
Freedom and stricture......Page 17
The politics of self-formation......Page 19
Defining cultural citizenship in relation to popular culture......Page 22
Usable stories, fictional rehearsal, and working through......Page 23
Regarding method......Page 25
Popular culture as (revolutionary) force......Page 27
The chapters to follow......Page 29
1 Ethnicity, football, and the nation......Page 33
Dutch football and the Surinamese legion......Page 35
Ethnography......Page 43
Fan involvement as citizenship......Page 47
2 Negotiating global popular culture......Page 53
Dutch police series......Page 55
International crime fiction......Page 64
Practices of representation and the reader......Page 70
3 Conservative feminism and the detective novel......Page 73
Everyday feminism, the interpretive community, and cultural citizenship......Page 75
A “good” detective novel and the ideal reader: the ambiguous status of the detective novel......Page 80
Cultural citizenship and crime fiction reading......Page 86
4 Masculinity and the merits of textual analysis as part of an audience study......Page 91
On irritation......Page 94
Masculinity and the text......Page 100
Methodology and understanding popular culture......Page 104
5 Critical viewership......Page 108
Postfeminist television......Page 110
Web journalism and Ally McBeal and Sex and the City......Page 113
“Jump the Shark”......Page 115
The “Jump the Shark” response to Ally McBeal and Sex and the City......Page 116
Conclusion......Page 125
6 Children and the media......Page 127
Good intentions......Page 128
Just for fun......Page 135
Children’s cultural citizenship......Page 144
7 Popular culture: a modern and a postmodern genealogy......Page 147
Modernism, popular culture, and gender......Page 148
Postmodernism and gender in the popular culture project......Page 155
Toward a new understanding of popular culture......Page 163
Concluding remarks......Page 167
Popular culture and cultural citizenship......Page 168
Popular culture and civic disengagement......Page 169
The art of listening to others......Page 170
References......Page 172
Index......Page 184