Cover -- Contents -- Introduction to 2018 Edition by Richard Dyer -- Introduction -- Part I: Definitions -- 1. The Media and Society -- 2. Minority Art, Folk Art, and Popular Art -- 3. Popular Art and Mass Culture -- Part II: Topics for Study -- 4. Popular Forms and Popular Artists -- 5. Violence on the Screen -- 6. The Avenging Angels -- 7. Falling in Love -- 8. Fantasy and Romance -- 9. Friends and Neighbours --10. The Young Audience -- 11. The Big Bazaar -- Part III: Social Themes -- 12. The Institutions -- 13. Mass Society: Critics and Defenders -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photographs.First appearing in 1964, and long since out of print, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's landmark book The Popular Arts takes seriously the importance of studying popular culture, thereby opening up an almost unprecedented field of analysis of everything from film, pulp crime novels, and jazz to television and advertising.Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction to 2018 Edition by Richard Dyer -- Introduction -- Part I: Definitions -- 1. The Media and Society -- 2. Minority Art, Folk Art, and Popular Art -- 3. Popular Art and Mass Culture -- Part II: Topics for Study -- 4. Popular Forms and Popular Artists -- 5. Violence on the Screen -- 6. The Avenging Angels -- 7. Falling in Love -- 8. Fantasy and Romance -- 9. Friends and Neighbours -- 10. The Young Audience -- 11. The Big Bazaar -- Part III: Social Themes -- 12. The Institutions -- 13. Mass Society: Critics and Defenders -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Photographs.First appearing in 1964, and long since out of print, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's landmark book The Popular Arts takes seriously the importance of studying popular culture, thereby opening up an almost unprecedented field of analysis of everything from film, pulp crime novels, and jazz to television and advertising