When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered it worthy of serious study. In their analysis of everything from Westerns an...(展开全部)

约翰·菲斯克（John Fiske）是美国威斯康辛大学麦迪逊校区的传播艺术教授，并曾在澳大利亚与英国从事教学工作。他共参与过5本书的写作，或独立创作，或与人合作，包括《解读电视》、《电视文化》等，另著有大量涉及大众文化的论文。

In this companion volume to Reading the Popular, Fiske presents a radical theory of what it means for culture to be popular.

In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts around each. Along the way readers w...(展开全部)