![]() This chapter will clarify the ways in which all of these assessments of Lee’s contribution, intervention or significance imply one or another relation between culture, media and politics, with film in particular playing a constitutive articulating role. In these fields, Bruce Lee is widely regarded as culturally-politically significant, particularly in terms of his contributions to Asian-American identity politics, diasporic Chinese ‘cultural identity’, the deconstruction of white Eurocentric hegemony in Hollywood film and in notions of masculinity, as well as his kinetic, symbolic and affective associations with civil rights movements and decolonization struggles. This chapter will assess the spectrum of positions in the discourses on ‘Bruce Lee’ to be found in politically-inflected fields concerned with cultural politics, such as cultural studies, media studies, film studies and ethnic identity studies. (The publisher has put a sample chapter of the book here: )Ībstract: V is for versus. This witty, thought-provoking and insightful book provides a unique approach and a clear introduction to popular culture for all students of cultural studies, media studies and sociology. With an innovative user guide and glossary to explain essential terms and ideas, this book makes difficult concepts relevant, accessible and interesting. Introducing complex ideas effortlessly, the book shows how to avoid common pitfalls in studying theory, questions claims behind the importance of popular culture and looks at the problems and possibilities of studying this fast-changing field. Unpicking and analysing recognisable examples from contemporary music, Hollywood film and the self-help movement, Paul Bowman uses techniques of deconstruction that encourage readers to form their own interpretations of the culture they experience every day. But who decides what counts as popular culture? Why is it so important? And how do we go about studying it? This book provides a unique introduction to popular culture. ![]() ![]() This book is an extraordinarily significant achievement.” – -John Mowitt, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota Popular culture permeates every aspect of our lives: from the music we listen to, the films and television shows we watch and the books we read. ![]() This is a book with both a passionate argument and a rare skill in making the ‘fine print’ of complex theoretical arguments accessible.” - Richard Stamp, Senior Lecturer of Media and Cultural Studies, Bath Spa University “Bowman writes very much as though he is speaking directly to a group of undergraduates: it engages them where they live. ![]() “Deconstructing Popular Culture is an accessible, funny and stimulating introduction to popular culture. ![]()
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