The Fluidity of the Term of Popular Culture in the Context of British Cultural Studies and outside of them Cover Image

Proměnlivost pojmu populární kultura v prostředí britských kulturálních studií i mimo ně
The Fluidity of the Term of Popular Culture in the Context of British Cultural Studies and outside of them

Author(s): Iveta Jansová
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: culture;popular culture;recipient;cultural studies

Summary/Abstract: The term popular culture has many connotations nowadays. This instability of the meaning dates back to the beginning of theorizing about the existence of more layers of a culture, such as high culture, low culture, mass culture or middle culture. Evolution, (re)interpretation or amplification of the meaning of the term of popular culture is the main theme of this paper. It begins with an introduction of confusion of the term with mass culture, then points out the meaning introduced by John Fiske and others and finishes with an idea of an amplified type of popular culture.

  • Issue Year: 10/2016
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 50-67
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Czech