Hard times today

Popular culture and the austerity myth: Hard times today

Authors: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J.

Pages: 1-237

DOI: 10.4324/9781315672809

Abstract:

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities? It provides a reading of cultural texts in circulation in the present 'age of austerity'. Through its central focus-popular culture-it considers the impact and influence of austerity across media and textual categories. The collection presents a theoretical deconstruction of popular culture's reproduction of, and response to, mythical expressions of 'austerity' in Western culture, spanning the United Kingdom, North America, Europe and the Middle East and textual events from political media discourse, music, videogames, social media, film, television, journalism, folk art, food, protest movements, slow media and the practice of austerity in everyday life

Source: Scopus

'Jolly Fucker': The face of farage

Authors: McDougall, J.

Pages: 59-64

DOI: 10.4324/9781315672809

Source: Scopus

Authors: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J.

Pages: 1-13

DOI: 10.4324/9781315672809

Source: Scopus

Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today.

Editors: Bennett, P. and McDougall, J.

Publisher: Routledge

Place of Publication: London

https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138942943

Source: Manual