Talk:Popular culture studies

Kinda new
Hi, I'm kinda new to Wikipedia so I don't really know what the procedure is here. I found this added at the bottom of this article

"If someone has a culture graph write back on this page because i rele need one. on popular and folk culture....thanx bye bye help!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEED A GRAPH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I wasn't really sure how important this request was, but I know enough about Wikipedia to realize that those kinds of things are what the talk page is for. So, I moved it here. Quixoto 19:53, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Original Research/POV
This article is full of original research, and some pretty tendentious summaries of the various schools of thought. For example, the word "monolithic" is used throughout as an obvious shibboleth. The Frankfurt School's orientation is at one point described as "traditional," as if it were some kind of rustic folkway. I'm flagging it.--WadeMcR 20:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. It launches it into premature criticisms of the subject without first giving an overview of the subject itself. This could maybe be remedied with a little reorganization. Otherwise it reads like someone has a axe to grind. 92.78.99.41 (talk) 08:10, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Image
The choice of a Superman comic to illustrate this article was dodgy at best. More to the point, fair use images could suffice. I recommend any of the following.


 * An image of a living prominant popular culture scholar
 * An image of the library of popular culture at Bowling Green, or a similar archive
 * An image from the annual PCA/ACA conference.

Any of these would work very well here. Phil Sandifer 22:05, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

Where can this be studied?
Anyone have a list of what universities have pop culture departments? Bowling Green does, but that's all I know. Rkaufman13 19:31, 19 July 2007 (UTC) Bowling Green State University is the only University in the United States that offers a stand alone BA and MA in popular culture studies —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thesupermikey (talk • contribs) 21:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

Dodgy claim
I've removed this from the intro:
 * Academic discussions on popular culture started as soon as contemporary mass society formed itself and the views on popular culture that were developed then still influence contemporary popular culture studies.

Apart from being terribly vague (mass society formed itself when, exactly?), I'm not sure it's true. Which academics? Since when has popular culture been identical with mass society (Shakespeare? commedia? folk?) DionysosProteus 04:04, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

The theory of culture industry paragraph
The 'theory of culture industry' section definitely needs citations. I don't agree that it is opposed the Gramscian concept of Cultural Hegemony; it would probably be better described as a development of Gramscian thought. The importance of the superstructure; the institutions of civil society (e.g. the culture industry) is at the core of Gramscian and neo-Gramscian thought. The only difference this theory appears to have with the Gramscian perspective is the argument that the ruling class is no longer under direct control of the state apparatus - that the system created over the course of the last 200 years by previous ruling classes is now the ruler itself and not controlled by any class. This does not oppose the Gramscian conception of hegemony. I would argue its adapting the concept to its modern context. This is my understanding of the theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.81.202 (talk) 19:35, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

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Stubbified
This has been drastically reduced in length due to WP:OR/WP:V concerns. See AfD discussion. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 10:03, 5 June 2022 (UTC)