Popular Culture, Kitsch as Camp, and Film

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Experiencing film: Subjective personal introspection and popular film consumption

Article history: First received on May 29, 2014 and was under review for 7 months Available online 28 September 2015 How and why audiences consume films is a much-researched yet inconclusive area of film marketing. Film is an experiential product and qualitative research methods are a suitable way of gaining insight into how people choose between different film offerings and how they assess the...

Mickey Mouse as Icon: Taking Popular Culture Seriously

tanding in front of Cinderella’s castle at Walt Disney World is a statue of two figures, one tall and one short, holding hands like parent and child. The tall figure is a representation of Walt Disney himself, evoking memories for baby boomers who watched him as the genial narrator of Disney’s Sunday evening television show. The smaller figure, the child, is Mickey Mouse, including those tradem...

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

This research examined media depiction of homicide in a large metropolitan area from the market-driven journalism perspective (McManus, 1994). From this perspective, news organization decisions are based on journalist and news editor perceptions of what type of stories resonate with the general public. Accordingly, the news production process becomes characterized as an exercise in market strat...