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Social, cultural and literary engagements demand robust critical, theoretical, and creative interventional observation that promotes learning, research and reform. Given this credence, the book, Visualising Contemporary Popular Culture: Media, Art and Literary Studies, attempts a pioneering approach to studying cultural artefacts such as media, art and literary studies in an attempt to dismantle and deconstruct the term ‘popular culture’ which has been defined in homogeneous frames since the late twentieth century, into a varying multitude of matrices. Furthermore, the academic articles enclosed attempt to provide a stout critical assessment of how human societies use, abuse, and subvert the aforementioned mediums to voice their struggles and create their meanings and messages, thus, effectively visualising popular culture as a discursive construct. While encompassing the keen and diligent research findings of several research scholars, the book aids in underlining the significant role of research in academic, social as well as, cultural evolution and advancement by positioning itself as a platform for novel perspectives and critical reflections on a variety of topics such as Contemporary World Literature, Pandemic Studies, Media and Cyberspace, Comics and Graphic Studies, Digital Humanities, Film Theory, Myth and Mythology, Cultural Studies.
Saran S. & Kranti Doibale
Saran S. (MA, Ph. D.) is a writer, Poet, Nature Activist, Teacher, and Research Scholar. He has completed his Doctoral Research from the Department of English, M. S. University in 2020. His areas are Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Film Studies, Psychoanalytical Studies and Eco Studies. He is the author of several articles published in various national and international journals as well as six academic books on topics of current interest like English Language, Film Studies, Partition Studies and Cultural Studies. He also authored a collection of poems and short stories. He also edited sixteen international books. He is the chief editor of Edit Academic and also an advisory board member in The Creative Launcher, international, open access, peer-reviewed refereed, e-journal in English (UGC approved).
Kranti Doibale MA English (Hons.), MA Linguistics, SET, MPhil works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, R.D. National College, Bandra West, Mumbai. A gold medallist at her Masters in English with honours from the University of Mumbai and an MA in Linguistics from Annamalai University, she has successfully completed a course in Film Studies from the Otto Von Guericke Universitat, Magdeburg, Germany and is presently pursuing her PhD in Corpus Linguistics. Her MPhil research and other national and international publications locate themselves at the nexus of society’s interaction with literary, film and linguistic study. An enthusiastic English language trainer, Ms. Kranti has worked with UNICEF, University of Mumbai, Pratham, QUEST and several other organisations for the teaching of English as a Second Language and functions as a core committee member of the English Language Teachers’ Association of India’s Mumbai Chapter.
