The Political Economy of Romance: Popular Culture, Social Divisions and Social Reconstruction in Wartime

1996 ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Allatt
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
Social Divisions

“Ma, There’s a Helicopter on the Pitch!” Sport, Leisure, and the State in Northern Ireland

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sugden ◽  
Alan Bairner
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Close Relationship

The political crisis in Northern Ireland has been met with a wide range of responses from the British state. Apart from a manifest increase in its coercive powers, in an attempt to maintain hegemonic supremacy there have been state sponsored initiatives directed toward penetrating and influencing various aspects of the Province’s popular culture. Because of the close relationship between sport, leisure, and the separate cultural traditions that underpin the political conflict, this area of popular culture has proven to be highly contested terrain. While traditional Marxist approaches to the study of superstructural formations have been greatly enhanced by the application of categories drawn from Gramsci’s political analysis, the Northern Ireland case reveals that Gramsci’s distinction between political and civil society is only useful so long as its application is flexible enough to accommodate the widest possible range of social divisions.

Acapulco in Dreams and Reality

2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen R. Niblo ◽  
Diane M. Niblo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultura Popular

This article is an exploration of the development of Acapulco, primarily in the twentieth century. It looks at the political economy of the resort and its importance to the Mexican model of development. It also examines the myths, tourist promotion, and the place of Acapulco in popular culture. Este artíículo es una exploracióón del desarrollo de Acapulco, principalmente en el siglo veinte. Se estudia la economíía políítica de ese centro turíístico y su importancia para el modelo mexicano de desarrollo. Examina tambiéén los mitos, la promocióón turíística, y el lugar de Acapulco en la cultura popular.

Cultural Dynamics of Iranian Post- Revolutionary Film Periodicals

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Hamid Naficy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Motion Picture ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Motion Picture Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
State Official ◽  
The Revolution

This essay is in two parts. Part I examines the dynamism and the political economy of the popular culture in Iran by focusing on the developments in the publication of film periodicals since the revolution of 1979. Part II provides a list of periodicals since the revolution that have dealt with cinema and the film industry.Periodicals specializing in film and cinema as well as those which devote only a section of each issue to the motion-picture industry are all part of the larger cultural dynamics of what we might call the Iranian post-revolutionary popular culture. These specialized and allied periodicals cannot be considered in a vacuum since, as part of the dynamics of this popular culture, they are involved in a host of negotiations and conflicting relations with the clerical state, official censorship boards, advertisers, film producers, the publishing industry, and finally their own readers.

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