ISBN:
9781438461458
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (286 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Delaney, Tim Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
DDC:
306.0973
Keywords:
Mass media and culture--United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Popular Culture -- Chapter 2. Movies and Popular Culture -- If Apes Evolved Instead of Humans: "Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!" -- The Simpsons Movie: Sure We Lost a Glacier, but We Gained a Lake -- Apocalypse Now: Loving the Smell of Napalm in the Morning -- Undead and Loving It: What's So Bad about Being a Zombie? -- Pinocchio: "Give a Little Whistle" -- The Truman Show: "It's all real-it's just controlled" -- Chapter 3. Television and Popular Culture
Abstract:
To Boldly Go: Star Trek as a Guide to the Future -- Columbo: "Just one more thing" -- Seinfeld: "I think I can sum up the show for you with one word: Nothing!" -- The Popularity of The Big Bang Theory: Giving Scientists and Nerds Some Love -- Commercials That Entertain Us: "Quick, get back, the commercials are about to begin" -- Infomercials: "But wait, there's more!" -- Chapter 4. Social Media and Popular Culture -- Facebook: Tracking Our Every Move -- The Popularity of Twitter: 60 Million Tweets a Day . . . and Counting
Abstract:
The Information Highway: Some of the Most Unpleasant People Travel on this Highway -- The Password Is: "Frustration" -- Michael Stevens, Social Media Personality. Answering Your Questions on a Vast Array of Subjects -- Street Gangs and the Cyber World: Claiming Digital Turf -- Chapter 5. Music and Popular Culture -- It Was Fifty Years Ago Today: The Beatles Live On -- Searching for Sugar Man -- Hip Hop and Rap Music: Giving "Voice" to Those Who Have None in Major Decision-Making Arenas -- Why Should I Pay for Music When I Can Download It for Free?
Abstract:
Beyoncé and Jay-Z: Representing the Differences between Women and Men through Song Lyrics -- Straight Outta Compton: Dr. Dre and Beats -- Chapter 6. Radio and Popular Culture -- Disc Jockeys and Free Radio: Radio Beams are Transmitting in the Air at All Times -- Why Listen to the Radio for Free When You Can Pay for It? Beaming to You from Outer Space -- Would-be Media Experts: Here's a List of the Do's and Don'ts for Conducting Radio Interviews -- The Martians Are Coming: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds -- "They're Playing Our Song:" Radio and Romance
Abstract:
Radio and Politics: From Father Coughlan to Rush Limbaugh -- Chapter 7. Newspapers, Comics and Cartoons and Popular Culture -- USA Today: But What about Tomorrow? -- Newspaper Comic Strips: Providing Humor and Drama in the Funny Pages for More than a Century -- You're a Good Man, Charles Schulz -- Underground Comics, Webcomics, and Political Cartoons: Cartoonists Expressing Themselves, but with an Edge -- Harvey Pekar and American Splendor: An Everyday Superhero -- Look, up in the Sky!: The Continuing Legacy of Superman -- Chapter 8. Books and Popular Culture -- Dr. Seuss on the Loose
Abstract:
Stanley "Tookie" Williams: A Controversial Nobel Prize-Nominated Author of Children's Books
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