Editorial

The term pop culture, equivalent to “culture de masse” in French – designates a cultural phenomenon that, according to historian Dominique Kalifa, began in 1860’s and developed throughout the 20th century. Pop culture encompasses the cultural industry and mass media in all their forms, from the press to Internet, to film, radio and television. Nevertheless this is not an exhaustive approach to the phenomenon: which ties can be woven between popular and mass culture? The very ambiguity of the ..