ISBN:
9781623565114
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (249 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Media, Masculinities, and the Machine : F1, Transformers, and Fantasizing Technology at its Limits
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Media, Masculinities, and the Machine identifies a distinctive phenomenon in today''s media culture - the contemporary male fantasy of ''suiting up'' and pushing technology to its limits. The authors deconstruct this fantasy using two in-depth studies from American, British and global media: the social imagining of hi-tech in the long-running Transformers franchise and global Formula One motorsport, with links to numerous other areas of contemporary culture. By drawing on non-representational theory and the latest theories of affect while employing the method of autoethnography to explore what
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Chapter 1 The Android Imaginaire (Jacques, Move Your Body); Chapter 2 Intensities and Affective Labor; Chapter 3 The Scene of Autoaffection; Chapter 4 Containment 1: The Strategy-Intensity Field; Chapter 5 Containment 2: The Companionship of Things; Chapter 6 Containment 3: Boys' Toys; Chapter 7 Masculinities, Vitality, and the Machine; Afterwords: Magnitude, Compression, Sharpness; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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