Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and surveys with readers and event organizers. The resurgence of book groups has inspired new cultural formations of what the authors call "shared reading." They interrogate the enduring attraction of an old technology for readers, community organizers, and government agencies, exploring the social practices inspired by the sharing of books in public spaces and revealing the complex ideological investments made by readers, cultural workers, institutions, and the mass media in the meanings of reading.
| ISBN: | 9781138929937 |
| Publication date: | 8th June 2015 |
| Author: | Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 350 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Media studies Popular culture Literature: history and criticism |
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events and the contemporary meanings of reading in the UK, USA, and Canada based on original interviews and surveys with readers and event organizers. The resurgence of book groups has inspired new cultural formations of what the authors call "shared reading." They interrogate the enduring attraction of an old technology for readers, community organizers, and government agencies, exploring the social practices inspired by the sharing of books in public spaces and revealing the complex ideological investments made by readers, cultural workers, institutions, and the mass media in the meanings of reading.
Reading Beyond the Book features in the following genres: Media studies, Popular culture, Literature: history and criticism
Reading Beyond the Book is available in Paperback, Ebook, Hardback
Reading Beyond the Book was written by Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Reading Beyond the Book has 350 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
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