Category: Popular Literature
Popular Narrative Literature
This is a list of the literature I read/watched for my popular narrative course.
Popular Narrative Readings
This post examines the literature I read during my course: Popular Narrative
What is Facebook?
Facebook has significant utilitarian and emotional functions. As a genre, Facebook provides an essential service that is important to many individuals. Particularly, one if its use values is that it maintains a “real-time” interaction so users may access updates on their friends and family members the moment they are shown. This online service is a [...]
Fan, Fan Theory and Contemporary Culture
Fans who ally themselves within their counterparts have adopted a different outlook on life, or a lifestyle that differs from the suburbanized constructs of dominant lifestyles.
Subculture and Fandom
This post examines what John Fiske beileved about fandom as well as de Carteau’s theories of how the audience develops.
The Frankfurt School
Frankfurt’s school’s critique didn’t just suggest that mass media was an economic exploitation, there was an ideological exploitation going on. It suggested that mass entertainment took over labour as a form of oppression.
