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Category : Popular culture
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Popular Culture Association Newsletter and Popular Culture Methods
Graduate Quarterly
Author: Resources in Education
Author: AMS Newsletter
Author: American Musicological SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Municipal Journal
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Category : Municipal engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Research in Education
Author: The News-letter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Author: Society for the Study of Southern LiteraturePublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Reading Joss Whedon
Author: Rhonda V. WilcoxPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815633645
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
In an age when geek chic has come to define mainstream pop culture, few writers and producers inspire more admiration and response than Joss Whedon. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Much Ado About Nothing, from Dr. Horrible’s Sing–Along Blog to The Avengers, the works of Whedon have been the focus of increasing academic attention. This collection of articles represents some of the best work covering a wide array of topics that clarify Whedon’s importance, including considerations of narrative and visual techniques, myth construction, symbolism, gender, heroism, and the business side of television. The editors argue that Whedon’s work is of both social and aesthetic significance; that he creates “canonical television.” He is a master of his artistic medium and has managed this success on broadcast networks rather than on cable. From the focus on a single episode to the exploration of an entire season, from the discussion of a particular narrative technique to a recounting of the history of Whedon studies, this collection will both entertain and educate those exploring Whedon scholarship for the first time and those planning to teach a course on his works.
Reading the Grateful Dead
Author: Nicholas G. MeriwetherPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810883716
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
In Reading the Grateful Dead: A Critical Survey, Nicholas G. Meriwether has assembled a collection of essays that examine the development of Grateful Dead studies. This volume includes work from three generations of scholars and includes a wide variety of perspectives on the b...
Troubling Masculinities
Author: Glen DonnarPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496828615
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 is the first multigenre study of representations of masculinity following the emergence of violent terror as a plot element in American cinema after September 11, 2001. Across a broad range of subgenres—including disaster melodrama, monster movies, postapocalyptic science fiction, discovered footage and home invasion horror, action-thrillers, and frontier westerns—author Glen Donnar examines the impact of “terror-Others,” from Arab terrorists to giant monsters, especially in relation to cinematic representations in earlier periods of national turmoil. Donnar demonstrates that the reassertion of masculinity and American national identity in post-9/11 cinema repeatedly unravels across genres. Taking up critical arguments about Hollywood’s attempts to resolve male crisis through Orientalizing figures of terror, he shows how this failure reflects an inability to effectively extinguish the threat or frightening difference of terror. The heroes in these movies are unable to heal themselves or restore order, often becoming as destructive as the threats they are supposed to be fighting. Donnar concludes that interrelated anxieties about masculinity and nationhood continue to affect contemporary American cinema and politics. By showing how persistent these cultural fears are, the volume offers an important counternarrative to this supposedly unprecedented moment in American history.