What does the expression pop culture mean today? And how does it
contribute to understanding a Country and a cultural group? This
collection of essays, diverse in content, approach and perspective,
tries to answer these questions. It aims at describing and figuring out
the texture of Italian pop culture - as a meaningful juxtaposition
between high and low, mass and elite, artistic and consumerist - in
relation to the Italian mediascape and cultural context. Through the
mosaic of narratives produced by television, music, comics and novels,
to name a few, and the mixture of genres and types of cultural products
analyzed in every essay, the reader is allowed to further the knowledge
of Italian pop culture and to get a glimpse of Italians and
'Italian-ness'.