Italian Pop Culture: Media, Products, Imageries

By Paolo Biondi

What does the expression pop culture mean today? And how does it contribute to understanding a Country and a cultural group? This collection of essays, diverse in content, approach and perspective, tries to answer these questions. It aims at describing and figuring out the texture of Italian pop culture - as a meaningful juxtaposition between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumerist - in relation to the Italian mediascape and cultural context. Through the mosaic of narratives produced by television, music, comics and novels, to name a few, and the mixture of genres and types of cultural products analyzed in every essay, the reader is allowed to further the knowledge of Italian pop culture and to get a glimpse of Italians and 'Italian-ness'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 886728939X
• ISBN13: 9788867289394
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Viella
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.97 lbs.