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2 books match the query 'Nachbar, Jack'
In the Eye of the Beholder
Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and TelevisionEdited by Gary R. Ederton, Michael T. Marsden, and Jack Nachbar
University of Wisconsin Press, 1997
Film and television are subjects of intense study throughout higher education today. Popular culture has undergone a revolution during the last generation, progressing from a discipline at the margins that was reflexively treated with contempt to one of the most widespread and productive topic areas in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The increased attention on film and television is clearly part of this overall acceptance and growing cachet now accorded popular culture in the academy.
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Popular Culture
An Introductory TextEdited by Jack Nachbar and Kevin Lause
University of Wisconsin Press, 1992
Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various categories of popular culture and by essays that demonstrate how the methods discussed in the introductions can be applied. This volume is an exciting beginning for the study of the materials of everyday life that define our culture and confirm our individual senses of identity.
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