Popular ideologies : mass culture at mid-century
Smulyan demonstrates that popular culture represented more than just "escape" during the twentieth century's formative period. Far from providing an ideology-free zone, popular products and entertainments served as an arena where producers attempt to impose notions of race, class, gender, and nationhood, and consumers react to such impositions
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, ©2007