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Unplugging Popular Culture

K. Shannon Howard · 2020
62/100
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This is a solid academic monograph that makes a genuinely interesting argument — using resentment toward digital-native stereotypes through pop culture like Stranger Things and Get Out is clever framing. But it is written for graduate seminars, not general readers, and available critical coverage is thin outside endorsements from the same academic circles. Worth it for media studies scholars; everyone else will bounce off the jargon wall.

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originality72
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