Thinking Popular Culture: War, terrorism and writing

January 10, 2009 by Tara Brabazon

This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christainity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11. It is essential reading for any scholar of cultural studies and popular culture, media and journalism, creative writing and terrorism studies.

Comments about Thinking Popular Culture

"Tara Brabazon has ushered cultural studies out of the drawing room and prodded it back onto the streets where it matters more than ever."

Justin O'Connor, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

"Brabazon is a 'war writer,' grappling not with the culture wars but with war itself, including the wars within. She offers a cultural studies appropriate to the period between 9/11 and the present. Her elegiac essays range widely. Brilliant Brabazon is an antidote to the Bush 'war presidency' and its dispiriting denouement. She makes cultural studies matter again."

Ben Agger, University of Texas Arlington, United States of America

"Tara Brabazon has written a beautiful, passionate, and political book about popular culture in which the learning of pleasure is matched by the pleasure of learning, criitque, and civic engagement. One cannot think about politics without engaging popular culture as a powerful educational force, and Thinking Popular Culture is one of the best books available to confront this crucial question with great insight, enormous courage, and sense of social responsibility."

Henry Giroux, McMaster University, Canada

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