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  • 1
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    LEGO Studies : Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon (2014)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415722872
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (323 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version LEGO Studies : Examining the Building Blocks of a Transmedial Phenomenon
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als LEGO studies
    DDC: 688.725
    RVK:
    AP 99550
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    AP 15963
    Keywords: LEGO toys.. ; Educational toys.. ; Popular culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Since the ""Automatic Binding Bricks"" that LEGO produced in 1949, and the LEGO ""System of Play"" that began with the release of Town Plan No. 1 (1955), LEGO bricks have gone on to become a global phenomenon, and the favorite building toy of children, as well as many an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO). LEGO has also become a medium into which a wide number of media franchises, including Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Batman, Superman, Lord of the Rings, and others, have adapted their characters, vehicles, props, and settings. The LEGO Group itself has become a multimedia empire
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Institutions; Prolegomena; 1 The Cultural History of LEGO; 2 Adapting the Death Star into LEGO: The Case of LEGO Set #10188; 3 Middle-earth and LEGO (Re)creation; 4 Myth Blocks: How LEGO Transmedia Configures and Remixes Mythic Structures in the Ninjago and Chima Themes; 5 Chicks with Bricks: Building Creativity Across Industrial Design Cultures and Gendered Construction Play; 6 (Un)blocking the Transmedial Character: Digital Abstraction as Franchise Strategy in Traveller's Tales' LEGO Games
    Description / Table of Contents: 7 Playset Nostalgia: LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game and the Transgenerational Appeal of the LEGO Video Game Franchise8 Brick by Brick: Modularity and Programmability in MINDSTORMS and Gaming; 9 Building the LEGO Classroom; 10 The LEGO System as a Tool for Thinking, Creativity, and Changing the World; 11 LEGO: The Imperfect Art Tool; 12 LEGO Art Engages People; 13 The Virtualization of LEGO; 14 Bright Bricks, Dark Play: On the Impossibility of Studying LEGO; 15 Afterword: D.I.Y. Disciplinarity-(Dis)Assembling LEGO Studies for the Academy; Appendix: Resource Guide for LEGO Scholarship; Index
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  • 2
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    Generation X Goes Global (2012)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415699440
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (373 p)
    Series Statement: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Parallel Title: Print version Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
    DDC: 305.235
    Keywords: Culture ; Generation X ; Popular culture ; Youth ; Social conditions ; Youth ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics' understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s to today. Bringing together twenty scholars working on fifteen different countries and residing in eight different nations, this book present a community of diverse disciplinary voices. Contributors explore the converging prop
    Description / Table of Contents: Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword: American X: The Ironic History of a Generation; Introduction: Generation X Goes Global-Tales of Accelerated Cultures; Part I What Generation X? Moving Beyond the White Middle-Class Slacker; 1 A Tale of Three Worlds or More: Young People, Media, and Class in India; 2 Locating Generation X: Taste and Identity in Transitional South Africa; 3 Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa; Part II Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens, and Comic Strips
    Description / Table of Contents: 4 Young, Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil: Commodifying Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and Its Film Versions5 A Century-End Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen; 6 Generation X in Greek Comics; Part III Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading Without a Net; 7 An Irish Feminist Gen X Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore; 8 Defending Narcissus: Frédéric Beigbeder and the French Pop Novel; 9 Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative
    Description / Table of Contents: 10 Opio en las nubes' Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads Without a NetPart IV Tracing Generation X: Going, Going . . . Still Not Gone?; 11 Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style; 12 Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes; 13 From Generation X to Generation : Transitional Traces and Youth Identities in Latin America; Part V: Conclusion; 14 Generation G Comes of Age: Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa; Contributors; Index;
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  • 3
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    Textual Poachers : Television Fans and Participatory Culture (2012)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415533287
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (425 p)
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Parallel Title: Print version Textual Poachers
    DDC: 302.23/45
    Keywords: Fans (Persons) -- Psychology ; Television viewers -- Psychology ; Popular culture ; Fans (Persons) ; Psychology ; Popular culture ; Television viewers ; Psychology ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The twentieth anniversary edition of Henry Jenkins's Textual Poachers brings this now-canonical text to a new generation of students interested in the intersections of fandom, participatory culture, popular consumption and media theory. Supplementing the original, classic text is an interview between Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott in which Jenkins reflects upon changes in the field since the original release of Textual Poachers. A study guide by Louisa Stein helps provides instructors with suggestions for the way Textual Poachers can be used in the contemporary classroom, and study questions
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Textual Poachers, Twenty Years Later: A Conversationbetween Henry Jenkins and Suzanne Scott; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Get a Life!": Fans, Poachers, Nomads; 2 How Texts become Real; 3 Fan Critics; 4 "It's Not a Fairy Tale Anymore": Gender, Genre, Beauty and the Beast; 5 Scribbling in the Margins: Fan Readers/Fan Writers; 6 "Welcome to Bisexuality, Captain Kirk": Slash and the Fan-Writing Community; 7 "Layers of Meaning": Fan Music Video and the Poetics of Poaching; 8 "Strangers No More, We Sing": Filk Music, Folk Culture, and the Fan Community
    Description / Table of Contents: Conclusion" In My Weekend-Only World...": Reconsidering FandomAppendix Fan Texts (Compiled by Meg Garrett); Sources; Note on the Cover; Teaching Guide: Teaching Textual Poachers; Discussion Questions; Index;
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  • 4
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    Interpreting Visual Culture : Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision (2005)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415157094
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (287 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Interpreting Visual Culture : Explorations in the Hermeneutics of Vision
    DDC: 111/.85
    Keywords: Popular culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Ranging from an analysis of the role of vision in current critical discourse to discussion of examples taken from the visual arts, ethics and sociology, this collection presents material on the interpretation of the visual in modern culture
    Description / Table of Contents: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Introduction; 1 The hermeneutics of seeing; 2 Specular grammar; 3 Bakhtin and the metaphorics of perception; 4 Durkheim's double vision; 5 Readers of the lost art; 6 Seeing becoming drawing; 7 The 'real realm'; 8 The denigration of vision and the renewal of painting; 9 My philosophical project and the empty jug; 10 'Ever more specific'; 11 Aporia of the sensible; Appendix: the original project; Select bibliography; Index
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  • 5
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    Researching children's popular culture : the cultural spaces of childhood (2002)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 0415239680 , 0415239699 , 9780415239684
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xii, 227 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Media, education and culture
    Parallel Title: Print version Researching Children's Popular Culture : The Cultural Spaces of Childhood
    DDC: 305.23
    Keywords: Popular culture ; Child development ; Electronic books
    Abstract: In this title, the authors focus primarily on methods of researching children's popular culture as well as offering analyses of such phenomena as children's websites and the internet, and popular toys like Barbie
    Description / Table of Contents: Researching Children's Popular Culture The cultural spaces of childhood; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Political Spaces: Contexts for Researching Children's Popular Culture; Chapter 2: Memory Spaces: Exploring the Afterlife of Children's Popular Culture; Chapter 3: Visual Spaces: The Gaze of the Child; Chapter 4: Physical Spaces: Children's Bedrooms as Cultural Texts; Chapter 5: Virtual Spaces: Children on the Cyber Frontier; Chapter 6: Historical Spaces: Barbie Looks Back; Notes; Bibliography; Index
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-221) and index , Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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  • 6
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    Clubbing : Dancing, Ecstasy, Vitality (2002)
    Hoboken : Taylor and Francis
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    ISBN: 9780415202138
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (253 p)
    Series Statement: Critical Geographies
    Series Statement: Critical Geographies Ser.
    Parallel Title: Print version Clubbing : Dancing, Ecstasy, Vitality
    DDC: 305.242/0941
    Keywords: Popular culture ; Popular culture ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Offering an informative and intimate insight into the world of clubbing and the experiences of clubbers, this book presents a clear academic framework for study in this field
    Description / Table of Contents: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Thanks; The beginnings; The night ahead; Clubbing contexts; Three starting points; Researching clubbing; The night out; Getting into it, feeling part of it; Getting into clubbing; Clubbing and coolness: distinctions and belongings; Getting into the club; Clubbing crowds and belongings; The dancer from the dance: the musical and dancing crowds of clubbing; Crowds and togetherness; Musical crowds; Dancing crowds; Spacings of dancing; Out of space, out of time; Moments of ecstasy: oceanic and ecstatic experiences in clubbing; The oceanic experience
    Description / Table of Contents: The ecstatic experienceA night on E: the use of ecstasy (MDMA) in the clubbing experience; The ecstatic and the oceanic in clubbing; Clubbing and playful vitality; Play and flow; Resistance and vitality; Clubbing as playful vitality; Going with the flow; Reflections; Introduction; Three stories of afterglow; Playing; consuming; fluxing; Nights out; Appendix: biographical snapshots of the clubbers; Notes; References; Index
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