Publisher's Synopsis
The "Insights" series aims to bring to academics, students and general readers the best in contemporary criticism on neglected literary and cultural areas. Each contribution concentrates on a study of a particular work, author or genre in its artistic, historical and cultural context.;The 25 essays in this volume, all of which set out to take a look at popular culture, cover a range of topics from T-shirts to computers. A number of the essays examine whether popular culture is a condition or a representation of experience and how it resists and reproduces consumer capitalism.
