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Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity
Av David Berry
Häftad, 2018
747 kr
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In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity examines how austerity has impacted upon cultural politics in relation to understanding how established power is …
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
Av Adriana Teodorescu, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes …
Belligerent Broadcasting
Synthetic argument in broadcast talk
Av Michael Higgins, Angela Smith
Häftad, 2019
747 kr
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Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account for the fact that broadcasting has become a sphere of anger, humiliation, anger, dispute and upset? And to what extent does belligerence in …
Perfect Union?
Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage
Häftad, 2019
599 kr
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On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage "is so ordered" across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U.S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened …
Isn't it Ironic?
Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
Av Ian Kinane
Inbunden, 2021
2879 kr
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This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular …
Isn't it Ironic?
Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
Av Ian Kinane
Häftad, 2023
742 kr
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This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular …
Reborn of Crisis
9/11 and the Resurgent Superhero
Av Annika Hagley, Michael Harrison
Häftad, 2022
689 kr
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This book examines the dominant popular culture convention of the superhero, situated within the most significant global event of the last 20 years. Exploring the explosion of the superhero genre post-9/11, it sheds fresh light on the manner in which American society has processed and continues to …
Representing Aboriginal Childhood
The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia
Inbunden, 2023
2445 kr
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This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, …
Representing Aboriginal Childhood
The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, …
Contemporary European Cinema
Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis
Av Betty Kaklamanidou, Ana Corbalán
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular theme of economic, demographic, and …
Post-9/11 Heartland Horror
Rural horror films in an era of urban terrorism
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved away from the characteristic industrial and urban settings of apocalyptic horror, to return to American heartland horror. Examining the revival of …
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy
Beyond boy wizards and kick-ass chicks
Av Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Häftad, 2020
791 kr
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This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and …
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television
Animation and the American Joke
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the …
Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ’metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the …
Consumerism on TV
Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present
Av Alison Hulme
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace, Birds of a Feather, Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as 'reality' television, this book examines the transformations that have occurred in consumer society since its appearance and the ways in which these have …
Convergent Wrestling
Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle
Av CarrieLynn Reinhard, Christopher Olson
Häftad, 2020
791 kr
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This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestling’s business practices exist at …
Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration
A Wall Rise Up
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration …
Make America Hate Again
Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of …
HBO’s Original Voices
Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power
Av Victoria McCollum, Giuliana Monteverde
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Looking, Silicon Valley, The Comeback, The Leftovers, …
Convergent Wrestling
Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle
Av CarrieLynn Reinhard, Christopher Olson
Inbunden, 2019
2736 kr
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This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestling’s business practices exist at …
Crazy Funny
Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
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This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional …
AfroSurrealism
The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first book-length exploration of AfroSurreal fiction, argues that we have entered a new and exciting era …
Death in Contemporary Popular Culture
Av Adriana Teodorescu, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Häftad, 2021
712 kr
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With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes …
Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism
Do You ‘Seriously Believe That’ After 9/11
Inbunden, 2024
994 kr
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Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy.Focused on the context of the post-9/11 American culture phenomenon, sometimes referred to as the New Atheism – as embodied by public intellectuals such …
Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism
Do You ‘Seriously Believe That’ After 9/11
Häftad, 2025
370 kr
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Religious Satire in the Era of New Atheism presents a contemporary account of religious satire as evidenced by the modern art of stand-up comedy.Focused on the context of the post-9/11 American culture phenomenon, sometimes referred to as the New Atheism – as embodied by public intellectuals such …
Class and Conjuncture in Television, Cinema and Literature
Inbunden, 2026
2879 kr
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This book presents a critical examination of how cultural forms, ranging from cinema and TV to literature, address class within the overarching context of a crisis conjuncture, specifically the period following the 2008 financial crash. It demonstrates how culture serves as a crucial site for …
Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television
Häftad, 2017
770 kr
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Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the …
HBO’s Original Voices
Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power
Av Victoria McCollum, Giuliana Monteverde
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Looking, Silicon Valley, The Comeback, The Leftovers, …
Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration
A Wall Rise Up
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration …
American Imperial Gothic
Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad …
