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Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth

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austerity
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Cheap Thrills
cultural representation
cultural studies
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media studies
myth
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neoliberal ideology
Nigel Farage
Occupy London
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Poli Tics
political discourse critique
popular culture
Post-capitalist Politics
Postcapitalist Politics
Protest Camps
protest movements analysis
representation
representations of austerity in media
River Cottage
Secretary Of State
Sidi Bouzid
social inequality research
sociology
Starry Eyes
Superhero Movie
Technological Fetish
Vice Versa
Welfare Reform

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138942943
  • Weight: 476g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities? It provides a reading of cultural texts in circulation in the present ‘age of austerity’. Through its central focus—popular culture—it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular culture’s reproduction of, and response to, mythical expressions of ‘austerity’ in Western culture, spanning the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and the Middle East and textual events from political media discourse, music, videogames, social media, film, television, journalism, folk art, food, protest movements, slow media and the practice of austerity in everyday life
About
Pete Bennett is Senior Lecturer in Postcompulsory Education at University of Wolverhampton, UK. Julian McDougall is Head of the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice and Associate Professor in Media and Education at Bournemouth University, UK.