Popular Culture by Raiford A Guins
A comprehensive collection of writings on popular culture to explain and inspire! Popular Culture: A Reader helps students understand the role of popular culture and the processes that constitute it as: - a product of industry; - an intellectual object of inquiry - an integral component of all our lives.
The selection of essays here is outstandingThe Reader is particularly strong in bridging between founding figures and cutting edge work by newer writers. -- Henry Jenkins
This is an especially comprehensive collection. It includes a wide range of essential readings and organizes them in a skill-focused and learning-focused way. The result is a lively, original and useful Reader. -- George Lipsitz
An extraordinarily well considered selection of articles and essays, arranged with skill and style. -- Charlie Blake
This is an especially comprehensive collection. It includes a wide range of essential readings and organizes them in a skill-focused and learning-focused way. The result is a lively, original and useful Reader. -- George Lipsitz
An extraordinarily well considered selection of articles and essays, arranged with skill and style. -- Charlie Blake
Raiford Guins is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the Media School and Adjunct Professor of Informatics at Indiana University, USA. He has authored Game After: A Cultural Study of Video Game Afterlife (2014) and Edited Clean Version: Technology and the Culture of Control (2009) and co-edited several collections including The Object Reader with Fiona Candlin (2009) and Debugging Game History: A Critical Lexicon with Henry Lowood (2016). Guins serves as co-editor of MIT Press's Game Histories book series with Lowood and is a founding editor of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories also with Lowood and Laine Nooney. His writings on game history appear in the following journals and magazines: American Journal of Play, The Atlantic, Cabinet, Design and Culture, Design Issues, Digital Culture & Education, Game Studies, Journal of Design History, Journal of Visual Culture, and Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780761974727 |
| ISBN 10 | 0761974725 |
| Title | Popular Culture |
| Author | Raiford A Guins |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc |
| Year published | 2005-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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