An exploration by nine key thinkers of the popularization of elite tastes for mass audiences, High-Pop challenges the project of cultural studies to focus on all-but-ignored forms of mainstream culture.
About the Author
Jim Collins is Associate Professor of Film, Television, and English at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Postmodernism (1989) and Architectures of Excess (1995), and co-editor of Film Theory Goes to the Movies (1993).
Features
Takes a new direction in cultural studies by focusing on elite 'culture' as popular culture.
Consists of case studies on emergent phenomena in mainstream culture that have never before been given significant scholarly treatment.
Showcases work by a cast of distinguished contributors, including Toby Miller, Carol Duncan, Jim Collins, and Celia Lury.
