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A critical approach within popular culture studies that interrogates how popular culture reproduces or resists dominant ideologies, hierarchies, and power structures. It examines issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, and colonialism in cultural texts, as well as the political economy of cultural industries. Critical analysis of popular culture also looks at fan practices as sites of resistance and meaning‑making. It moves beyond celebrating or condemning pop culture to ask: who benefits from these representations? What possibilities for alternative futures are opened or foreclosed?
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