Offerta Lampo Italian Pop Culture Media, Products, Imageries

Descrizione

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 cultureas a meaningful juxtaposition between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumeristin 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.