Sexualities and Popular Culture

by Carl B. Holmberg

Overview

The author presents a short history of popular culture with definitions and examples that illustrate the evolving portrayal of human sexuality. Examples are taken from sources such as books, film, magazines and television, historic texts, sport and everyday popular practices to explain how pervasively popular culture communicates sexuality to us and through us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761903512
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/09/1998
Series:	Feminist Perspective on Communication , #6
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Popular Culture
Communication and Media
Popular Culture Studies
Sex, Gender and Sexual Orientation
Over the Edge
Taboos and Sexualized, Transgressive Interpretive Communities
Prehistoric and Historic Texts from around the World
Historic Texts of Beauty
The Problematics of Art, Erotica and Pornography
The Horror of Sex
Sexual Humors and the Flirtatious Alchemy of Gaiety and Gravity
After the Beat
Popular Music
Gesture, Body Image and the Fashion of Sex Toys

Editorial Reviews

Holmberg (popular culture, Bowling Green State U.) traces the history of popular culture in terms of the development of the concept, and its influence on the ways in which we perceive the sexualized human presentation of self in everyday life. He discusses the ways in which popular culture communicates messages. He sees the contextualization of popular culture events and artifacts as constituting communicative matrices of mutual desire. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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