Preview 2001+: Popular Culture Studies in the Future - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087972689X ISBN 13: 9780879726898

Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State, 1995

Synopsis

A collection of essays on new directions and future trends in popular culture studies, with sections on parameters and dynamics of popular culture studies; leisure and recreation; sense of community; marketing cultures; and extension or circularity. Topics include the role of the university as an institution of popular culture; religious fervor; developing the place and role of community in society; and marketing the apocalypse. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Review:

Be prepared for the next 1,000 years! What will sports be like in the new millennium? What is the future of tourism and how will we spend our leisure time? Where will the Internet 2001 take us? How will religion interface with the future? Preview 2001+ addresses these issues in a collection of essays from writers whose informed visions predict the very near future. Rather than doomsaying, the essays help plot society's course into the new world that awaits.

From the Back Cover:

The educational opportunities of the new millennium are endless if our efforts are informed. If not, they will be catalogs of failures or half-successes. The essays in this collection, written by some of the leading scholars in Popular Culture Studies, turn the page on the new millennium to see what are the directions of approach and the opportunities to be gained in recognition of the compelling need for studies in everyday cultures. These essays help chart the course for themes and directions of such studies into the new world that is waiting to be born. Their value is indispensable.

About this edition

• Publisher: Popular Pr of Bowling Green State
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 087972689X
• ISBN 13: 9780879726898
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222
• Editor: Browne Ray B., Fishwick Marshall William