Madonna Studies
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Madonna Studies was a term which has been used to refer to a controversial development of a field in media studies during the 1990s. One writer described the "institutionalization of a major subdivision of American media studies into Madonna studies".[1] The field related to the study of and interpretation of the work of American pop musician Madonna using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating cultural studies and media studies. A notable compendium of essays titled The Madonna Connection[2] was published in 1993. Controversy over this field of study stemmed from discussions over the intellectual worth of pursuing academic inquiry into a pop musician, with some[who?] arguing the field was nothing more than pop cultural commentary.
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- ^ Robertson, P (1996). Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp From Mae West to Madonna. Duke University Press, London, pp. 117.
- ^ Schwichtenberg, C. (1993). Introduction to Schwichtenberg, C (ed), The Madonna Connection: Representational Politics, Subcultural Identities, and Cultural Theory. Westview Press, San Francisco.
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