Burns - A Companion to Popular Culture

Advisory Editor: David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

This series provides theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes devoted to the major fields and subfields within cultural studies, whether as single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist cultural studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies). Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially commissioned articles and also to provide the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions. An overarching Companion to Cultural Studies will map the territory as a whole.

1. A Companion to Film Theory
Edited by Toby Miller and Robert Stam

2. A Companion to Postcolonial Studies
Edited by Henry Schwarz and Sangeeta Ray

3. A Companion to Cultural Studies
Edited by Toby Miller

4. A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies
Edited by David Theo Goldberg and John Solomos

5. A Companion to Art Theory
Edited by Paul Smith and Carolyn Wilde

6. A Companion to Media Studies
Edited by Angharad Valdivia

7. A Companion to Literature and Film
Edited by Robert Stam and Alessandra Raengo

8. A Companion to Gender Studies
Edited by Philomena Essed, David Theo Goldberg, and Audrey Kobayashi

9. A Companion to Asian American Studies
Edited by Kent A. Ono

10. A Companion to Television
Edited by Janet Wasko

11. A Companion to African American Studies
Edited by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon

12. A Companion to Museum Studies
Edited by Sharon Macdonald

13. A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
Edited by George E. Haggerty and Molly McGarry

14. A Companion to Latina/o Studies
Edited by Juan Flores and Renato Rosaldo

15. A Companion to Sport
Edited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington

16. A Companion to Diaspora
Edited by Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani

17. A Companion to Popular Culture
Edited by Gary Burns

Edited by

Gary Burns

This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Burns, Gary, 1952 June 10 editor.
Title: A companion to popular culture / edited by Gary Burns.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : John Wiley & Sons, [2016] | Series: Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 38 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015042756 | ISBN 9781405192057 (hardback) | ISBN 9781118883334 (ePub) | ISBN 9781118883358 (Adobe PDF)
Subjects: LCSH: Popular cultureStudy and teaching. | BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Classification: LCC HM623 .C566 2016 | DDC 306.07dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015042756

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Cover image: Getty/Ugurhan Betin

Chuck Berg is Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Kansas, where he has taught a wide variety of courses in film-media history, theory, and criticism since joining the KU faculty in 1977.

Paul Booth is Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago and the author of Game Play (Bloomsbury, 2015), Playing Fans (University of Iowa Press, 2015), Time on TV (Peter Lang, 2012), and Digital Fandom (Peter Lang, 2010).

Gary Burns is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University. He is Editor (with Thomas Kitts) of the journals Popular Music and Society and Rock Music Studies. He is coeditor of the books Television Studies: Textual Analysis and Making Television: Authorship and the Production Process. His work has appeared in the South Atlantic Quarterly, Popular Music, Wide Angle, the Journal of Popular Film & Television, the Journal of American Culture, the Journal of Popular Culture, and Goldmine. He is a past president of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association.

Jane Caputi is Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She has written several books, including Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture, and has authored two short educational documentaries, most recently Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth.

Jeffrey Chown is Emeritus Professor of Communication at Northern Illinois University. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Ireland and a winner of the State of Illinois's Studs Terkel Humanitarian Award.

Patricia A. Cunningham is a fashion historian and emerita faculty at The Ohio State University. She is author of several books on fashion and popular culture and a forthcoming book titled