ISBN:
9780822383505
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (760 p.) :
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63 b&w photos
DDC:
306/.0973
Keywords:
Popular culture Study and teaching
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Popular culture
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
Abstract:
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers. Proceeding from their deep political commitment to a new kind of populist grassroots politics, these writers challenge old modes of studying the everyday. As they rework traditional scholarly language, they search for new ways to write about our complex and compelling engagements with the politics and pleasures of popular culture and sketch a new and lively vocabulary for the field of cultural studies.The essays cover a wide and colorful array of subjects including pro wrestling, the computer games Myst and Doom, soap operas, baseball card collecting, the Tour de France, karaoke, lesbian desire in the Wizard of Oz, Internet fandom for the series Babylon 5, and the stress-management industry. Broader themes examined include the origins of popular culture, the aesthetics and politics of performance, and the social and cultural processes by which objects and practices are deemed tasteful or tasteless. The commitment that binds the contributors is to an emergent perspective in cultural studies, one that engages with popular culture as the culture that "sticks to the skin," that becomes so much a part of us that it becomes increasingly difficult to examine it from a distance. By refusing to deny or rationalize their own often contradictory identifications with popular culture, the contributors ensure that the volume as a whole reflects the immediacy and vibrancy of its objects of study.Hop on Pop will appeal to those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader.Contributors. John Bloom, Gerry Bloustein, Aniko Bodroghkozy, Diane Brooks, Peter Chvany, Elana Crane, Alexander Doty, Rob Drew, Stephen Duncombe, Nick Evans, Eric Freedman, Joy Fuqua, Tony Grajeda, Katherine Green, John Hartley, Heather Hendershot, Henry Jenkins, Eithne Johnson, Louis Kaplan, Maria Koundoura, Sharon Mazer, Anna McCarthy, Tara McPherson, Angela Ndalianis, Edward O’Neill, Catherine Palmer, Roberta Pearson, Elayne Rapping, Eric Schaefer, Jane Shattuc, Greg Smith, Ellen Strain, Matthew Tinkhom, William Uricchio, Amy Villarego, Robyn Warhol, Charles Weigl, Alan Wexelblat, Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Nabeel Zuberi
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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I. introduction --
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The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies --
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Defining Popular Culture --
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II. self --
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Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You’d Be Home --
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Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past --
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Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media --
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“Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?” Star Trek’s Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics --
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The Empress’s New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture --
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“My Beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy --
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III. Maker --
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“Ceci N’est Pas une Jeune Fille”: Videocams, Representation, and “Othering” in the Worlds of Teenage Girls --
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“No Matter How Small”: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss --
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An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net --
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“I’m a Loser Baby”: Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity --
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IV. Performance --
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“Anyone Can Do It”: Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars --
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Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance --
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Mae West’s Maids: Race, “Authenticity,” and the Discourse of Camp --
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“They Dig Her Message”: Opera, Television, and the Black Diva --
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How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism—and Tallulah Bankhead’s Phallus --
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V. Taste --
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“It Will Get a Terrific Laugh”: On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor --
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The Sound of Disaffection --
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Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon --
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“Racial Cross-Dressing” in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife --
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The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia’s New York --
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Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston’s Combat Zone --
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VI. Change --
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On Thrifting --
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Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century --
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Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism --
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The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom --
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Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett --
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VII. Home --
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“The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know”: Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey --
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Finding One’s Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity --
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As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other --
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Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France --
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Narrativizing Cyber-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery --
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Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies --
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VIII. emotion --
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“Ain’t I de One Everybody Come to See?!” Popular Memories of Uncle Tom’s Cabin --
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Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women’s Power --
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“Have You Seen This Child?” From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abıˆme --
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Introducing Horror --
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About the Contributors --
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Name Index
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In English.
DOI:
10.1515/9780822383505
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383505
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822383505
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383505
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822383505
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