Pop-Lit: Essays in Retrospection

This collection of critical essays provides a thorough examination of how popular culture actively constructs and reflects our social realities. The book systematically analyzes mass media and everyday cultural practices, demonstrating their profound influence on societal norms, values, and underlying power structures through a variety of established theoretical frameworks.

What distinguishes this volume is its deliberate intellectual lineage, tracing the evolution of cultural studies from foundational thinkers like Matthew Arnold through the critical theories of the Frankfurt School and the Birmingham School. Readers seeking a structured, academic understanding of how cultural studies has historically interpreted the world around us will find this an essential and clarifying resource for making sense of our contemporary media landscape.