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Syracuse University Press Peanuts Pogo and Hobbes
Book SynopsisGeorge Lockwood spent 30 years working for the Milwaukee Journal where he became the managing editor for features. Written from thie inside perspective of a newspaper editor and with the nostalgic tone of a man who grew up loving comics, Peanuts, Pogo and Hobbes is an engaging blend of the author's personal experiences with cartoonists and his discussion of the importance of comics.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P West Wing
Book SynopsisThis work shows that while the series ""The West Wing"" may be criticized as ""idealistic"", its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image of itself, and entertains a loyal audience that wants to believe in the nobility of the American Dream.
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Screwball Television Critical Perspectives on
Book SynopsisBringing together seventeen original essays by scholars from around the world, this title offers a variety of international perspectives on Gilmore Girls (WB/CW, 2000-2007).Trade ReviewThe continuing fascination with Gilmore Girls . . . suggest just how much there is to the show, and the essays in this collection mine much of this territory quite well.
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Syracuse University Press Arab Americans in Film
Book SynopsisIn this innovative volume, Mahdi offers a comparative analysis of three cinemas, yielding rich insights on the layers of representation and the ways in which those representations are challenged and disrupted.Trade ReviewMahdi cleverly juxtaposes US, Egyptian, and Arab American cinematic representations of Arab belonging in America to enrich our understanding of cultural citizenship in the present day. Mahdi has written an exciting, original comparative analysis of how Arab Americans are portrayed in three genres: Hollywood cinema, Egyptian cinema, and Arab American cinema. . . .The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how Othering is both constructed and challenged. Broad-ranging and sophisticated, this is an engaging, beautifully written analysis of the cultural production of Arab American identity in film, looking at examples from the US and the Middle East. A rich and detailed investigation of how cinematic images of Arab Americans have been forced to travel the globe to serve the agendas of others, and how they also yearn to be free.
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University of Arizona Press Culture Across Borders
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University of Arizona Press Chicano Popular Culture
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University of Arizona Press Latinx TV in the TwentyFirst Century
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University of Minnesota Press Learning To Divide The World Education at
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University of Minnesota Press Culture Works The Political Economy of Culture
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University of Minnesota Press The Cinema or The Imaginary Man
Book SynopsisA classic work that explores the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind - at last available in English!Table of ContentsContents Translator's AcknowledgmentsTranslator's Introduction The Cinema or The Imaginary Man: An Essay in Sociological Anthropology Prologue1. The Cinema, the Airplane2. The Charm of the Image3. Metamorphosis of the Cinematograph into the Cinema4. The Soul of the Cinema5. Objective Presence6. The Complex of Dream and Reality7. Birth of a Reason, Blossoming of a Language8. The Semi-Imaginary Reality of Man Author's Preface to the 1977 Edition NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Stars
Book SynopsisThe classic work on the mythic nature of movie stardom - now back in print!Table of ContentsContents Foreword Lorraine MortimerGenesis and Metamorphosis of the StarsGods and GoddessesThe Stellar LiturgyThe Chaplin MysteryThe Case of James DeanStar-MerchandiseThe Star and the ActorThe Star and Us Morin's Cinema LandmarksNotesBibliography
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University of Minnesota Press Pure Beauty Judging Race in Japanese American
Book SynopsisExamines the question of who is Japanese American.
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University of Minnesota Press Footsteps in the Dark
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University of Minnesota Press The American Dream in Vietnamese
Book SynopsisFantasy, desire, and community in Vietnamese American popular culture.Trade Review"Nhi T. Lieu insightfully demonstrates how important popular culture is to the self-fasionioning of Vietnamese Americans. Her groundbreaking book validates what many Vietnamese Americans demonstrate in their everyday lives: that the pursuit of leisure and the rituals of entertainment are as crucial to community formation as political advancement and economic empowerment." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, author of Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America Table of ContentsIntroduction: Private Desires on Public Display 1. Assimilation and Ambivalence: Legacies of U.S. Military Intervention 2. Vietnamese by Other Means: The Overlapping Diasporas of Little Saigon 3. Pageantry and Nostalgia: Beauty Contests and the Gendered Homeland 4. Consuming Transcendent Media: Videos, Variety Shows, and the New Middle Class Conclusion: Transnational Flows between the Diaspora and the Homeland Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Suspended Animation
Book SynopsisAn innovative analysis of children's picture books from the interwar period in America.Trade Review"'Deeply researched and richly illustrated, Suspended Animation foregrounds the crucial and contentious role of the children’s picture book in a conflicted twentieth century. It highlights the tug of nostalgic innocence against the complexities of industrialism, war, gender, and battles for ideological domination—with the stakes nothing less than actions and beliefs of the generation(s) of the future." —Cecelia Tichi, Vanderbilt University"Lavishly illustrated, this panorama of picture books from the 1920s and ‘30s opens an expanse of brilliantly executed visual narratives that set the context for some of the most cherished landmarks of American childhood, from Millions of Cats to Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel. Much of the material we encounter in this book springs from a modernist New York between the wars, where experiments in drama, design, or dada had an impact on the design of picture books. Nathalie op de Beeck’s extended readings make us eager to explore the energetic, droll, technologically innovative texts for ourselves." —Margaret R. Higonnet, University of ConnecticutTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Here and Now Fairy Tales 2. Picture Book Ethnography: Representing the Other in Picture Books and Illustrated Texts 3. Sentient Machines: Lonesome Locomotives and the Mechanized Modern Body 4. Murals in Miniature: Regionalism, Labor, and Obsolescence Postscript: The Picture Book After 1942 Notes Index
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University of Minnesota Press Animes Media Mix Franchising Toys and Characters
Book SynopsisUntangles the web of commodity, capitalism, and art that is anime Trade Review"Anime’s Media Mix is a must-read for anyone interested in the transformations of contemporary media. In portraying how anime characters are emblematic of mobility and connectivity in a broader media ecology, Marc Steinberg maps a new logic of production and consumption that shapes our world today." —Ian Condry, MIT"Marc Steinberg opens up brave new possibilities for the study of global media cultures. Attending to the watershed years of Japan’s 1960s and the ascendance of televisual animation he details how entire commodity regimes came to circulate around the idea of the anime “character.” Original and timely, historically dense and theoretically acute, Anime’s Media Mix definitively teaches us that anime can no longer be thought outside the networks of its transmediation." —Marilyn Ivy, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Rethinking Convergence in JapanPart I. Anime Transformations: Tetsuwan Atomu1. Limiting Movement, Inventing Anime2. Candies, Premiums, and Character Merchandizing: The Meiji-Atomu Marketing Campaign3. Material Communication and the Mass Media ToyPart II. Media Mixes and Character Consumption: Kadokawa Books4. Media Mixes, Media Transformations5. Character, World, ConsumptionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts
Book SynopsisFrom the cultural critic Wired called provocative and cuttingly humorous comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of the national psyche and the nethermost regions of the selfthe gothic, the grotesque, and the carnivalesqueMark Dery makes sense of the cultural dynamics of the American madhouse early in the twenty-first century. Here are essays on the pornographic fantasies of Star Trek fans, Facebook as Limbo of the Lost, George W. Bush's fear of his inner queer, the theme-parking of the Holocaust, the homoerotic subtext of the Super Bowl, the hidden agendas of IQ tests, Santa's secret kinship with Satan, the sadism of dentists, Hitler's afterlife on YouTube, the sexual identity of 2001's HAL, the suicide note considered as a literary genre, the surrealist poetry of robot spam, the zombie apocalypse, Lady Gaga, the Church of Euthanasia, toy guns in the dream liveTrade ReviewMark Dery’s cultural criticism is the stuff that nightmares are made of. He’s a witty and brilliant tour guide on an intellectual journey through our darkest desires and strangest inclinations. You can’t look away even if you want to.—Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz, Boing BoingMark Dery is gifted with sanity, humor, learning, and a prose style as keen as a barber’s razor. He applies those qualities to a trustworthy and entertaining analysis of the lunatic fringe, which constitutes an ever-larger portion of the discourse in America today.—Luc SanteDo not turn squeamish from the many considerations of death that lurk within—vampires, tombs, disease, corruption of many varieties. Mark Dery’s restless and stylish essay is concerned with one thing only—what it means to be alive in America.—Richard Rodriguez, author of Brown: The Last Discovery of AmericaThe bebop rhythms of Mark Dery’s prose reflect an intellectual excitement that is rare among contemporary cultural essayists. Reading him is like ingesting a powerful jolt of espresso.—Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare WarsTable of ContentsContentsForeword: I Must Not Read Bad ThoughtsBruce SterlingIntroductionPart I. American Magic, American DreadDead Man Walking: What Do Zombies Mean? Gun Play: An American Tragedy in Three Acts Mysterious Stranger: Grandpa Twain’s Dark Side Aladdin Sane Called. He Wants His Lightning Bolt Back: On Lady Gaga Jocko Homo: How Gay Is the Super Bowl? Wimps, Wussies, and W.: Masculinity, American Style Stardust Memories: How David Bowie Killed the ’60s and Ushered in the ’70s and, for One Brief Shining Moment, Made the Mullet Hip When Animals Attack! An Aesop’s Fable about Anthropomorphism Toe Fou: How I Was Subliminally Seduced by Madonna’s Big Toe Shoah Business The Triumph of the Shill: Fascist Branding Endtime for Hitler: On the Downfall Parodies and the Inglorious Return of Der Führer Part II. Myths of the Near Future: Making Sense of the Digital Age World Wide Wonder Closet: On Blogging (Face)Book of the Dead Straight, Gay, or Binary? HAL Comes out of the Cybernetic Closet Word Salad Surgery: Spam, Deconstructed Slashing the Borg: Resistance Is Fertile Things to Come: Xtreme Kink and the Future of Porn Part III. Tripe Soup for the Soul: Religion and All Its Works and WaysTripe Soup for the Soul: The Daily Affirmation Pontification: On the Death of the Pope The Prophet Margin: Jack Chick’s Comic-Book Apocalypse 2012: Carnival of Bunkum The Vast Santanic Conspiracy Part IV. Anatomy Lesson: The Grotesque, the Gothic, and Other Dark MattersOpen Wide: Dental Horror Gray Matter: The Obscure Pleasures of Medical Libraries Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Severed Head Been There, Pierced That: Apocalypse Culture and the Escalation of Subcultural Hostilities Death to All Humans! The Church of Euthanasia’s Modest Proposal Great Caesar’s Ghost: On the Crypt of the Capuchins Aphrodites of the Operating Theater: On La Specola’s Anatomical Venuses Goodbye, Cruel Words: On the Suicide Note as a Literary Genre Cortex Envy: Bringing Up Baby Einstein AcknowledgmentsNotesPublication History
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Mechademia 7
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Radical PerspectivalismThomas LamarreIntervalsInventing Intervals: The Digital Image in Metropolis and GankutsuōMarc SteinbergTakahashi Macoto: The Origin of Shōjo Manga StyleFujimoto YukariTranslated by Matt ThornThe Face in the Shadow of the Camera: Corporeality of the Photographer in Kanai Mieko’s Narratives Atsuko SakakiKamishibai and the Art of the IntervalSharalyn OrbaughWorlds in PerspectiveHokusai’s Lines of SightTimon ScreechSuperflat and the Postmodern Gothic: Images of Western Modernity in KuroshitsujiWaiyee LohFrom Techno-cute to Superflat: Robots and Asian Architectural FuturesDavid BeynonDying in Two Dimensions: Genji emaki and the Wages of Depth PerceptionReginald JacksonImage Essay: Mobile WorldviewsStefan Riekeles and Thomas LamarreNonlocalizable SelvesTopologies of Identity in Serial Experiments LainCraig JacksonFrom Superflat Windows to Facebook Walls: Mobility and Multiplicity of an Animated Shopping GazeJinying LiNew Halves, Old Selves: Reincarnation and Transgender Identification in Ōshima Yumiko’s Tsurubara-tsurubara Emily SomersEnergetic MatterAudiovisual Redundancy and Remediation in Ninja bugeichō Yuriko FuruhataMoving the Horizon: Violence and Cinematic Revolution in Ōshima Nagisa’s Ninja Bugeichō (1967)Miryam SasAnatomy of Permutational Desire, Part 3: The Artificial Woman and the Perverse Structure of ModernityLivia MonnetContributorsCall for Papers
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Beginning to See the Light Sex Hope and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If this book can be said to make one central assumption, it is that there really is such a thing as liberation." —Ellen Willis, from the Introduction
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press No More Nice Girls Countercultural Essays
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University of Minnesota Press The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Sound of Things to Come is a lively, endlessly inventive exploration of the sonic worlds of science fiction cinema (beginning even before the advent of synchronized sound). The breadth and subtlety of Trace Reddell’s interdisciplinary scholarship is impressive, and his book is an ongoing homage to the valuable conceptual and cognitive challenges upon which effective science fiction depends."—Scott Bukatman, Stanford University"Building on the highly original concept of the sonic novum, Trace Reddell has written the first comprehensive theoretical approach to musical science fiction. The Sound of Things to Come is an alternative history of science fiction cinema, a handbook of sophisticated close analyses of many important films, and a re-envisioning of the role of sound technology in modernist aesthetics."—Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, author of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction Studies"Trace Reddell’s The Sound of Things To Come provides a highly detailed and expansive analysis of the history of intersecting aesthetic practices and disciplines that create the diverse sonic space of sf cinema."—Science Fiction Studies"This book is a methodological investigation of tools and composition techniques used in Science Fiction films’ soundtracks."—Neural"A challenging text deserving careful reading and study as one of the best works in this field."—Film International"The Sound of Things to Come is a timely—and welcome—study of the aural aesthetics of sf cinema, a subject that has barely been broached in the critical literature."—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "The Sound of Things to Come is an excellent start to the conversation about sound in sf cinema, and it should encourage other scholars to continue the conversation."—Extrapolation " Reddell’s insightful monograph sparks an exciting interdisciplinary conversation whose “shape-to-come” begins to emerge here and now."—Studies in the Fantastic Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Sounds in Science Fiction1. The Origins of Sonic Science Fiction (1924–50)2. Ambient Novum, Alien Novum (1950–68)3. Cosmos Philosophy and Thought Synthesizers (1959–1968)4. Sonic Alienation and the Psytech at War (1971–77)5. Sonorous Object-Oriented Ontologies (1979–89)Conclusion: Sonic Science Fiction into the Twenty-First CenturyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press The Sound of Things to Come An Audible History
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Sound of Things to Come is a lively, endlessly inventive exploration of the sonic worlds of science fiction cinema (beginning even before the advent of synchronized sound). The breadth and subtlety of Trace Reddell’s interdisciplinary scholarship is impressive, and his book is an ongoing homage to the valuable conceptual and cognitive challenges upon which effective science fiction depends."—Scott Bukatman, Stanford University"Building on the highly original concept of the sonic novum, Trace Reddell has written the first comprehensive theoretical approach to musical science fiction. The Sound of Things to Come is an alternative history of science fiction cinema, a handbook of sophisticated close analyses of many important films, and a re-envisioning of the role of sound technology in modernist aesthetics."—Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, author of The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction Studies"Trace Reddell’s The Sound of Things To Come provides a highly detailed and expansive analysis of the history of intersecting aesthetic practices and disciplines that create the diverse sonic space of sf cinema."—Science Fiction Studies"This book is a methodological investigation of tools and composition techniques used in Science Fiction films’ soundtracks."—Neural"A challenging text deserving careful reading and study as one of the best works in this field."—Film International"The Sound of Things to Come is a timely—and welcome—study of the aural aesthetics of sf cinema, a subject that has barely been broached in the critical literature."—Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts "The Sound of Things to Come is an excellent start to the conversation about sound in sf cinema, and it should encourage other scholars to continue the conversation."—Extrapolation " Reddell’s insightful monograph sparks an exciting interdisciplinary conversation whose “shape-to-come” begins to emerge here and now."—Studies in the Fantastic Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Sounds in Science Fiction1. The Origins of Sonic Science Fiction (1924–50)2. Ambient Novum, Alien Novum (1950–68)3. Cosmos Philosophy and Thought Synthesizers (1959–1968)4. Sonic Alienation and the Psytech at War (1971–77)5. Sonorous Object-Oriented Ontologies (1979–89)Conclusion: Sonic Science Fiction into the Twenty-First CenturyAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Metagaming
Book SynopsisA playful and provocative call to stop playing videogames and begin making metagamesTrade Review"Digital media scholars Stephanie Boluk and Patrick Lemieux ask what do games do? They rediscover meaning for the term metagame."—Rhizomes"Interesting analysis of specific examples of the ways in which play has evolved under different circumstances."—CHOICE connect"Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly eclectic book careens from competitive e-sports and video game spectatorship to hacking, modding, speedrunning, experimenting, and critiquing video games—all valid ways of engaging with the medium that tend to fall outside analyses which see these activities as merely the metagame."—Critical InquiryTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Metagaming: Videogames and the Practice of Play1. About, Within, Around, Without: A Survey of Six MetagamesMetagame 2: Triforce2. Stretched Skulls: Anamorphic Games and the Memento Mortem MortisMetagame 3: Memento Mortem Mortis3. Blind Spots: The Phantom Pain, The Helen Keller Simulator, and BlindrunningMetagame 4: It Is Pitch Black4. Hundred Thousand Billion Fingers: A Serial History of Super Mario Bros.Metagame 5: 99 Exercises in Style5. The Turn of the Tide: E-Sports, Moneyball, and the Undercurrency in Dota 2Metagame 6: Tide Hunter6. Breaking the Metagame: Feminist Spoilsports and Magic Circle JerksAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyGameographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Mechademia 8 Tezukas Manga Life
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction. Manga Life: Tezuka . . .Thomas LamarreNonhuman Life“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka’s Feminist SpeciesMary A. KnightonDiary of an Insect Shôjo’s Vagabond LifeTezuka OsamuTranslated by Mary A. KnightonTezuka Osamu’s Circle of Life: Vitalism, Evolution, and BuddhismG. Clinton GodartAtom Came from Bugs: The Precocious Didacticism of Tezuka Osamu’s Essays in Insect IdlenessLinda H. ChanceOn the Fabulation of a Form of Life in the Drawn Line and Systems of ThoughtVerina GfaderThe Metamorphic and Microscopic in Tezuka Osamu’s Graphic NovelsChristine L. MarranMedia LifeWhere Is Tezuka?: A Theory of Manga ExpressionNatsume FusanosukeTranslated by Matthew YoungPhoenix 2772: A 1980 Turning Point for Tezuka and AnimeRenato Rivera RuscaCopying AtomuMarc SteinbergTokiwasou StoryAkatsuka FujioTranslated by Matthew YoungA Life in MangaToward a Theory of “Artist-Manga”: Manga Self-Consciousness and the Transforming Figure of the ArtistYorimitsu HashimotoTranslated by Baryon Tensor PosadasManga Shônen: Katô Ken’ichi and the Manga BoysRyan HolmbergImplicating Readers: Tezuka’s Early Seinen MangaHideaki FujikiTezuka’s Anime Revolution in ContextJonathan ClementsDesigning a WorldFrederik L. SchodtUnicoAnno MoyokoTranslated by Matthew YoungEveryday LifeAn Unholy Alliance of Eisenstein and Disney: The Fascist Origins of Otaku CultureÔtsuka EijiTranslated by Thomas LamarreOsamu Moet Moso: Imagining Lines of Eroticism in AkihabaraPatrick W. GalbraithTezuka, Shôjo Manga, and Hagio MotoHikari HoriOut of Death, an Atomic Consecration to Life: Astro Boy and Hiroshima’s Long ShadowAlicia GibsonWolf Head in PhoenixToshiya Ueno ContributorsCall for Papers
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University of Minnesota Press Everybodys Heard about the Bird
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Engrossing and exhaustive, Everybody’s Heard about the Bird is an invaluable pop history document that chronicles the nascent Minneapolis recording and music industry and early rock-and-roll stew. All in all, a labor of love that feels both fresh and long overdue." —Jim Walsh, journalist, songwriter, and author of The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History"A meticulously researched and thoughtfully told celebration of the successes Minnesota musicians achieved in the ‘60s."—Pioneer Press"A deep, exhilarating, educational and inspiring rabbit hole that leads to aural artifacts from a time when ballroom dance floors looked like sizzling pans of human flesh, so wild and freely were they filled with dancing kids."—MinnPost.com"If you didn’t experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had."—Fox 9 News"Relive the years of Augie Garcia and Bobby Vee, the Castaways and the Trashmen, whose hit “Surfin’ Bird” inspired hundreds of bands in the Upper Midwest. Word is that this fun read. . . is selling out all over town."—Pioneer Press"Just like ‘Surfin’ Bird’ and the other songs of that era, the best word that could be used to describe Shefchik’s book is simply ‘fun.’"—Star Tribune"Rick Shefchik...has meticulously re-created the scene whose biggest names included the Castaways, the Underbeats, the Avanties, and the Gestures."—Minnesota History"Shefchik’s meticulously researched history is the authoritative document of this early, fertile era of rock ‘n’ roll."—Minnesota HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPrologue1. Suzie Baby2. The Rajah of the Records3. Battle of the Bands4. Trashman’s Blues5. The Bird is the Word6. The British Arrive7. On the Move8. The Big Three9. The Great Deception10. Run, Run, Run11. Liar, Liar12. We Gotta Get Out of This Place13. Dream if You CanEpilogue: Bringing It All Back HomeAcknowledgmentsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Improper Names
Book SynopsisBridging gaps among the history of the labor movement, cinema studies, art history, media activism, and hacking, Improper Names examines the contentious politics and the struggles for the control of a shared alias from the early nineteenth century to the age of networks.Trade Review"Marco Deseriis’s learned and lively account of the improper name carefully considers the history, political reach, and symbolic power afforded by the alias by drawing on a rich set of examples, from Ned Ludd to Anonymous. The book’s optic opens wide to engage a wide range of subjects, from labor history to the politics of art, direct action, and digital media."—Gabriella Coleman, McGill University "Unusual and distinctive... A thorough, well-informed, tightly argued criticism of the political implications of deconstructionist thought."—Anarchist StudiesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Genealogy and Theory of the Improper Name1. Ned Ludd, the Machine Breaker2. Allen Smithee, the Anti-Auteur3. Monty Cantsin, the Open Pop Star4. Luther Blissett, the Mythmaker5. Anonymous, the TransducerConclusion: The Improper Name as Medium and GapNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Digital Shift
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jeff Scheible argues that when writing—and all of culture—is undergoing radical change through the overwhelming adoption of networked and programmable media, it is possible to detect and analyze these changes in the encompassing details, in the cultural logic of punctuation, for example. This book is highly engaging. Scheible’s arguments are compelling and provocative."—John Cayley, Brown University Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Textual Shift and the Cultural Logic of Punctuation1. Connecting the Dots: Periodizing the Digital2. Within, Aside, and Too Much: On Parentheticality across Media3. # LogicCoda: Canceling the Semiotic SquareNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press What Gender Is What Gender Does
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes—including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought—to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."—Renée C. Hoogland, Wayne State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press What Gender Is What Gender Does
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes—including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought—to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."—Renée C. Hoogland, Wayne State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Human Programming
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Human Programming is an imaginative and incisive account of how US culture—across decades, mediums, and institutions—has given form to dystopian fears of mind control as a way of buttressing a sense of the American self that is even more outlandish in its pretenses to autonomy. From Cold War politics to posthuman technologies, Selisker reconsiders who we think we are by looking closely at the forces that have told us what to do."—Mark Goble, University of California, Berkeley"Lucid and compellingly conceived, Human Programming contributes much to the growing body of scholarship on postwar American anxieties about human agency and social influence."—Timothy Melley, Miami University"The American rhetoric around brainwashing, Selisker shows, is inconsistent at the most basic level: it takes for granted that the programmed self is inauthentic, and that the real self is spontaneous and unlearned."—Los Angeles Review of Books"Scott Selisker offers readers a fascinating new history of American anxieties along the borderland between the machine and the human mind."—New Books Network"The scope of the book is impressive, and the author’s fusion of media forms and disciplinary approaches is creative and adept."—CHOICE"Selisker’s history of the human automaton is far reaching and firmly grounded in evidence. His work provides a meaningful contribution to the interactions between culture and political thought, and his research will be of interest to academics with a variety of different research interests. This book has expertly answered the ‘what’; ‘how’; ‘when’ and ‘where’ of human automaton, and has made strong inroads into the ‘why.’"—British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction: Enemies of Freedom 1. Uniquely American Symptoms: Cold War Brainwashing and American Exceptionalism 2. Anti-institutional Automatons: New Left Reappropriations of Automatism 3. Human Programming: Computation, Emotion, and the Posthuman Other 4. Cult Programming: Extremism, Narrative, and the Social Science of Cults 5. Fundamentalist Automatons: Representing Terrorist Consciousness in the War on Terror Conclusion: Automatism and Agency Notes Index
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The University of Alabama Press I the People
Book SynopsisExamines a variety of texts - ranging from speeches and campaign advertisements to news reports and political pamphlets - to outline the populist character of conservatism in the United States. Paul Elliott Johnson focuses on key inflection points in the development of populist conservatism.Trade Review“Paul Johnson’s I The People offers a theoretically rich lens for understanding the paradoxes of modern conservative rhetoric, drawing together rhetorical, psychoanalytic, and political theory. Johnson attends astutely to the interarticulation of toxic white masculinity and conservative populism in the United States, offering insights into both contemporary iterations of political culture and to their historical antecedents.”- Claire Sisco King, author of Washed in Blood: Male Sacrifice, Trauma, and the Cinema;“Anyone who wants to understand the rhetorical appeal of modern conservatism should read this book. I The People shows how conservative constructions of ‘the people’ frame democracy as a threat to individual freedom- even at the highest levels of government. Paul Johnson exhumes a new history of rhetorical appeals and communicative strategies to examine how conservative populisms articulate diversity and the common good as sources of individual trauma. An important and timely read.”- Elisabeth R. Anker, author of Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
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The University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture Rhetoric Culture Social Critique
Trade ReviewBrummett's exciting volume challenges us to acknowledge the necessarily subversive elements implicated in the study of popular culture.... His book is much more than a study of the persuasive elements of nontraditional rhetorical forms, and more than a study of the rhetorical aspects of film, television or the mass media. Brummett's argument represents the theoretical and critical framework for a new perspective on what it means to be rhetorical"" in a media age.... What Brummett has provided is no less than a theoretical rationale for the study of popular culture as well as a beginning framework of how to undertake that study. For students of the rhetoric of popular culture, this volume is necessary. For others, certainly its first three chapters are provocative in the way they challenge accepted issues within the ancient tradition of rhetorical theory and criticism."" - Quarterly Journal of Speech ""A timely study of rhetoric and popular culture that could be successfully used by various [scholars] interested in ethics, communications, popular culture social influences, and rhetoric."" - Popular Culture in Libraries
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University of Alabama Press Rhetorical Homologies Form Culture Experience Rhetoric Culture and Social Critique
Trade Review"Brummett's exciting volume challenges us to acknowledge the necessarily subversive elements implicated in the study of popular culture.... His book is much more than a study of the persuasive elements of nontraditional rhetorical forms, and more than a study of the rhetorical aspects of film, television, or the mass media. Brummett's argument represents the theoretical and critical framework for a new perspective on what it means to "be rhetorical" in a media age.... What Brummett has provided is no less than a theoretical rationale for the study of popular culture as well as a beginning framework of how to undertake that study. For students of the rhetoric of popular culture, this volume is necessary. For others, certainly its first three chapters are provocative in the way they challenge accepted issues within the ancient tradition of rhetorical theory and criticism." - Quarterly Journal of Speech"
£23.36
University of Georgia Press Horse Crazy
Book SynopsisExplores the meaning behind the love between girls and horses. Jean O'Malley Halley examines how popular culture, including the pony book genre, uses horses to encourage conformity to gender norms but also insists that the loving relationship between a girl and a horse fundamentally challenges sexist and mainstream ideas of girlhood.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Confederate Statues and Memorialization
Book SynopsisOffers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public.
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Where My Heart Is Turning Ever Civil War Stories
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£37.46
LUP - University of Georgia Press Why Any Woman Feminism and Popular Culture in
Book SynopsisScholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of late twentieth-century southern feminisms: popular culture by and about southern women.Trade ReviewIn Why Any Woman, Keira V. Williams uses pop culture by and about southern women as a lens through which to analyze southern feminists and the type of feminism they created. . . . Considering the variety of fields which this work falls into, that's no small achievement. It’s excellent on late twentieth-century feminist theory, particularly neoliberalism. I've never read anything quite like it." - Janet Allured, author of Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997
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LUP - University of Georgia Press Why Any Woman Feminism and Popular Culture in
Book SynopsisScholars are revisiting the history of feminist activism and organizations, mining it for a revisionist, grassroots gender politics in the South. Why Any Woman advances this line of historical inquiry by focusing on one of the most productive sites of late twentieth-century southern feminisms: popular culture by and about southern women.Trade ReviewIn Why Any Woman, Keira V. Williams uses pop culture by and about southern women as a lens through which to analyze southern feminists and the type of feminism they created. . . . Considering the variety of fields which this work falls into, that's no small achievement. It’s excellent on late twentieth-century feminist theory, particularly neoliberalism. I've never read anything quite like it." - Janet Allured, author of Remapping Second-Wave Feminism: The Long Women’s Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997
£32.26
LUP - University of Georgia Press Working Juju Representations of the Caribbean
Book SynopsisThe Caribbean has historically been constructed as a region mantled by the fantastic. Andrea Shaw Nevins analyses such imaginings of the Caribbean and interrogates the freighting of Caribbean-infused spaces with characteristics that register as fantastical.
£35.72
Ohio University Press Pictorial Victorians The Inscription of Values
Book SynopsisThe Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture.Trade Review“With a keen eye for significant detail, the author proves herself a meticulous, sensitive, circumspect, and convincing reader of the pictures she treats and of their relation to the texts or cultural phenomena they illustrate.” * author of Museum of Words: The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery *
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Ohio University Press From Submarines to Suburbs
Book SynopsisUsing documentary evidence in the form of numerous advertisements of the time, From Submarines to Suburbs is a fascinating analysis of the way corporations made the successful switch from supporting the war effort to building on the peacetime prosperity by re-tooling the patriotic fervor of the home front.Trade ReviewThis is a rich and sophisticated elaboration of the history of corporate restoration and should be widely read. * Journal of American History *Not since Roland Marchand’s work on interwar advertising and public relations has there been such a sophisticated historical analysis of corporate rhetoric, whether verbal or visual.... From Submarines to Suburbs is a major work. * Technology and Culture *Henthorn’s well-written and extensively illustrated book about "American commercial propaganda" from 1939-1959 fills an important gap in the emerging historical narrative.... Drawing on a wealth of sources, including an impressive number of institutional advertisements, Henthorn explores how corporations promoted a strong consumer ethos during the war and beyond. * The Historian *A substantial and thoroughly researched book.... Henthorn also includes sixty-nine well-chosen illustrations from newspaper and magazine advertisements and industrial sources...making the work more rewarding and accessible to a variety of readers. * Journalism History *Readers will appreciate the numerous illustrations as well as Henthorn’s deft analysis of advertising copy and imagery. A skillful synthesis that yields new insights, From Submarines to Suburbs is a valuable contribution to both business and cultural history. * Business History Review *
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MD - Duke University Press A Small Boy and Others
Book SynopsisExplores an array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures.Trade Review“[In this] mesmerizing book . . . Moon can unleash power of his own in some of the most subtle and loamy literary and cultural criticism available anywhere. . . . The criticism he offers is unfailingly generous, both to the works and to us: he hopes his collection of queernesses may ‘contribute to the production of an expanded critical field.’ Let’s hope so.” - American Literature“Moon is an elegant reader, at his best when revealing layers of disruption and elusive motivation embedded within seemingly reticent texts.” - BookForum“[A] highly original approach. . . . Individual chapters are brilliant. . . . [T]his is highly recommended for collections supporting graduate work in queer theory and cultural studies.” - Library Journal“[Moon’s] aim is ambitious: to highlight points of continuity between formative influences of American queer culture during two critical decades—one following the conviction of Oscar Wilde (1895) and the other leading up to the period of the Stonewall riots (1969). Shuttling between these two periods, Moon examines how a variety of artists with queer sensibilities precociously identified themselves as outsiders highly sensitive to cultural disconnection and personal loss. . . . Moon juxtaposes figures not usually yoked in critical inquiry: Henry James and David Lynch, Vaslav Nijinksy and Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and John Schlesinger, Joseph Cornell and Gerard deNerval. In each instance, his intent is explicitly revisionist: he proposes a radical reassessment of the significance of the artists’ works. Scholars and students aware of these artists should find Moon’s argument provocative.” - Choice“Refreshing and original. . . .” - Eric Savoy, The Henry James Review“Moon’s analyses are shrewd and compassionate about their subjects, and give powerful evidence to the value of queer theory for criticism in general—the value of an open generosity of attention that is becoming increasingly rare within straightened and specialised academia.” - Ian F. A. Bell, American Studies“Michael Moon’s beautifully written book offers splendid and nuanced readings of American literature and culture that move the project of queer literary practice into a new order of complexity and subtlety. His radical contributions show that queer imitation involves a disorientation of mimesis, affirming both the sympathetic and divisive dimensions of identification. Moving, incisive, and bold, Moon’s writing approaches moments of rapture and loss and fails to tame them.”—Judith Butler“[A] highly original approach. . . . Individual chapters are brilliant. . . . [T]his is highly recommended for collections supporting graduate work in queer theory and cultural studies.” * Library Journal *“[In this] mesmerizing book . . . Moon can unleash power of his own in some of the most subtle and loamy literary and cultural criticism available anywhere. . . . The criticism he offers is unfailingly generous, both to the works and to us: he hopes his collection of queernesses may ‘contribute to the production of an expanded critical field.’ Let’s hope so.” * American Literature *“[Moon’s] aim is ambitious: to highlight points of continuity between formative influences of American queer culture during two critical decades—one following the conviction of Oscar Wilde (1895) and the other leading up to the period of the Stonewall riots (1969). Shuttling between these two periods, Moon examines how a variety of artists with queer sensibilities precociously identified themselves as outsiders highly sensitive to cultural disconnection and personal loss. . . . Moon juxtaposes figures not usually yoked in critical inquiry: Henry James and David Lynch, Vaslav Nijinksy and Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and John Schlesinger, Joseph Cornell and Gerard deNerval. In each instance, his intent is explicitly revisionist: he proposes a radical reassessment of the significance of the artists’ works. Scholars and students aware of these artists should find Moon’s argument provocative.” * Choice *“Moon is an elegant reader, at his best when revealing layers of disruption and elusive motivation embedded within seemingly reticent texts.” * BookForum *“Moon’s analyses are shrewd and compassionate about their subjects, and give powerful evidence to the value of queer theory for criticism in general—the value of an open generosity of attention that is becoming increasingly rare within straightened and specialised academia.” -- Ian F. A. Bell * American Studies *“Refreshing and original. . . .” -- Eric Savoy * The Henry James Review *
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Duke University Press Bold Daring Shocking True
Book SynopsisPresents a social and cultural history of exploitation films. Analysing many films, such as "The Road to Ruin", "Modern Motherhood", and more, this book demonstrates that these films were more than simply 'bad' movies. It shows how they evolved during a period of forty years and how, during that time, they shaped public policies and attitudes.Trade Review“An astonishing scholarly achievement, one of the most impressive books I’ve read in a decade. Schaefer’s research is broad and profound. This is not only the reference work on the subject; it is a model of elegant argument.”—Matthew Bernstein, author of Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent“The exploitation film has enjoyed a cult following as ‘turkey cinema,’ ‘trash,’ midnight movie camp, psychotronic cinema, and the object of ridicule on Mystery Science Theater 3000. Yet Schaefer’s book shows us that it must be central to any understanding of the way Hollywood cinema operates. This groundbreaking work will open up an entirely new field of film history.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Science Fiction Audiences: Watching Doctor Who and Star Trek“When I was in the business I billed myself as ‘The Expert Exponent of Exploitation.’ I hereby bestow that shibboleth to the genuine, absolute, factual Expert Exponent, Eric Schaefer. Nothing more need ever be told about this subject.”—David F. Friedman, who was there when a lot of it happened, producer of Daughter of the Sun, Blood Feast, and other exploitation classicsTable of ContentsAcknowledments Introduction: “As Long as It Was in Bad Taste!” “An Attempt to ‘Commercialize Vice’”: Origins of the Exploitation Film “A Hodge-Podge of Cuttings and Splicings”: The Mode of Production and the Style of Classical Exploitation Films “You Gotta Tell ’Em to Sell ’Em”: Distribution, Advertising, and Exhibition of Exploitation Films “Thoroughly Vile and Disgusting”: The Exploitation Film and Censorship “No False Modesty, No Old-Fashioned Taboos”: The Sex Hygiene Film “The Monster That Caters to Thrill-Hungry Youth”: The Drug Film "Timely as Today’s Front Page”: Vice, Exotic, and Atrocity Films “They Wear No Clothes!”: Nudist and Burlesque Films Conclusion: The End of Classical Exploitation Appendix 1 - Major Exploitation Producers/Distributors and Their Company Names Appendix 2 - Filmography Appendix 3 - Video Sources Notes Bibliography Index
£23.39
Duke University Press Tabloid Culture
Book SynopsisFocuses on diverse theoretical sources and an unprecedented range of electronic and print media in order to analyse important aspects and key debates that have emerged around this phenomenon. Rejecting elitist dismissal of sensationalist media, this book traces the cultural currents and counter currents running through their forms and products.Trade Review“At last, a book that treats tabloidism seriously! Glynn’s multidimensional study— analytical, historical and theoretical—shows us how tabloid TV became the genre that reshaped the media environment of the 1980s and 1990s. Glynn’s treatment of the phenomenon itself and of the controversies around it provide insights into contemporary media culture that we cannot ignore. No one who is interested in how changing notions of popular culture shape both the commercial and textual forms of contemporary media can afford to miss this book.”—John Fiske, author of Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change“This is a very smart book about aspects of contemporary media culture that have never been more visible nor more in need of rigorous analysis. Glynn goes beyond the simplistic demonization of tabloid television to specify both the genre’s form and its cultural ramifications.”—Jim Collins, author of Architectures of Excess: Cultural Life in the Age of InformationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: The Geneology of Tabloid Television Chapter 2: Cops, Courts, and Criminal Justice: Evidence of Postmodernity in Tabloid Culture Chapter 3: Bodies of Popular Knowledge: The High, The Low, and A Current Affair Chapter 4: Fantastic Populism: A Walk on the Wild Side of Tabloid Culture Chapter 5: Normalization and Its Discontents: The Conflictual Space of Daytime Talk Shows Chapter 6: Conclusion: Cultural Struggle, The New News, and the Politics of Popularity in the Age of Jesse “The Body” Vent Appendix; TVQ Scores for Tabloid Programs by Demographic Audience Category
£19.79
Duke University Press Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in
Book SynopsisA collection of essays which use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture. It addresses topics such as 20th-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism and the geographies of migration and diaspora.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem / Rey Chow 1 Narrative Subjectivity and the Production of Social Space in Chinese Reportage / Charles A. Laughlin 26 Three Hungry Women / David Der-wei Wang 48 Two Discourses on Colonialism: Huang Guliu and Eileen Chang on Hong Kong of the Forties / Leung Ping-Kwan 78 Beyond Cultural and National Identities: Current Re-evaluation of the Kominka Literature from Taiwan's Japanese Period / Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang 99 Wang Wenxing and the "Loss" of China / Christopher Lupke 127 If China Can Say No, Can China Make Movies? Or, Do Moves Make China? Rethinking National Cinema and National Agency / Chris Berry 159 Look Who's Talking: The Politics of Orality in Transitional Hong Kong Mass Culture / Kwai-Cheung Lo 181 Bondage in Time: Footbinding and Fashion Theory / Dorothy Ko 199 No Questions, No Answers: China and A Book from the Sky / Stanley K. Abe 227 International Theory and the Transnational Critic: China in the Age of Multiculturalism / Michelle Yeh 251 Can One Say No to Chineseness: Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm / Ien Ang 281 Afterword: The Possibilities of Abandonment / Paul A. Bové 301 Index 317 Contributors 325
£25.19
Duke University Press Groove Tube
Book SynopsisCritics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune - or even willfully blind - to the landmark upheavals rocking western and American society during the 1960s. This book challenges the assumption that TV programming failed to consider or engage with the decade's youth-led societal changes.Trade Review“Groove Tube offers the first comprehensive account of the representation of the youth rebellions in television and of the sparky reception of those representations in the underground press. Bodroghkozy is the model of a new kind of media historian, one who has produced a book that will attract and hold the interest of Generation X undergrads and old hippies alike.”—Henry Jenkins, author of From Barbie to Mortal Combat“Bodroghkozy is right-on when it comes to the details of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, CBS’s firing of us, and the surrounding controversy. Her observations are certainly worth taking the time to read.”—Tom SmothersTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Turning on the Groove Tube 1. “Clarabell was the First Yippie”: The Television Generation from Howdy Doody to McLuhan 2. Plastic Hippies: The Counterculture on TV 3. “Every Revolutionary Needs a Color TV”: The Yippies, Media Manipulation, and Talk Shows 4. Smothering Dissent: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and the Crisis of Authority in Entertainment Television 5. Negotiating the Mod: How The Mod Squad Played the Ideological Balancing Act in Prime-Time 6. Make It Relevant: How Youth Rebellion Captured Prime-Time in 1970-1971 7. Conclusion: Legacies Appendix: A Groove Tube Selective Chronology of the Years 1966 to 1971 Bibliography
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Duke University Press Ambient Television Visual Culture and Public
Book SynopsisExamines the role of television in public space at different points in the history of the medium. The author explores the significance of this pervasive phenomenon, tracing the forms of conflict, commerce, and community that television generates outside the home.Trade Review“Ambient Television offers a long overdue consideration of television spectatorship through a study of television's strategic positioning in a variety of public environments outside the home. Anna McCarthy's superb historical research has unearthed much fascinating material which will be of interest to artists and media critics. Anyone wishing to understand more fully our ever expanding media culture will benefit from McCarthy's astute analysis and historical insights into television's complex place in the public sphere.”—John Hanhardt, Guggenheim Museum“An entirely original book, Ambient Television is brilliantly conceived, researched, and argued. Scholars in material culture, media history, and television studies are likely to recognize this virtuoso treatment of TV outside the home as an instant classic.”—Andrew Ross“An unusually rich, ambitious, and engaging work. McCarthy has produced a significant piece of scholarship that will have wide impact upon the way television is taken up in the academy and elsewhere.”—William Boddy, Baruch CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Public Lives of TV 1 Part I. Histories and Institutions Rhetorics of TV Spectatorships Outside the Home 27 1. TV, Class, and Social Control in the 1940s Neighborhood Tavern 29 2. Gendered Fantasies of TV Shopping in the Postwar Department Store 63 3. Out-of-Home Networks in the 1990s 89 Part II. Places and Practices Reading TV Installations in Daily Life 115 4. Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens 117 5. Television and Consumption at the Point of Purchase 155 6. Television While You Wait 195 7. Terminal Thoughts on Art, Activism, and Video for Public Places 225 Notes 253 Works Cited 287 Index 305
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Duke University Press Hop on Pop
Book SynopsisSuitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader, this book showcases the work of a generation of scholars - from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.Trade Review“Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc have collected a diverse array of intriguing insights into popular culture—not with disdain or postmodern mumble, but with real interest and even respect. Hop on Pop looks at pop culture as the water we swim in, as a muscular change agent, as the mirror held up to human nature.”—Brenda Laurel, author of Utopian Entrepreneur"A lively travelogue of the ‘lively arts,’ Hop on Pop cheerfully transcends political, personal, and professional boundaries to offer a sprawling rainbow map of popular culture and exposes those old boundaries for the sneetch-like spooks they truly are."—Scott McCloud, cartoonist and author of Understanding ComicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix I. Introduction 1 The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 3 Defining Popular Culture / Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc 26 II. Self 43 Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You'd Be Home / Elayne Rapping 47 Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past / John Bloom 66 Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media / Heather Hendershot 88 "Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?" Star Trek's Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics / Peter A. Chvany 105 The Empress's New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture / Jane Shattuc 122 "My Beautiful Wickedness": The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy / Alexander Doty 138 III. Maker 159 "Ceci N'est Pas une Jeune Fille": Videocams, Representation, and "Othering" in the Worlds of Teenage Girls / Gerry Bloustien 162 "No Matter How Small": The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss / Henry Jenkins 187 An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net / Alan Wexelblat 209 "I'm a Loser Baby": Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity / Stephen Duncombe 227 IV. Performance 251 "Anyone Can Do It": Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars / Robert Drew 254 Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance / Sharon Mazer 270 Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity," and the Discourse of Camp / Pamela Robertson Wojcik 287 "They Dig Her Message": Opera, Television, and the Black Diva / Dianne Brooks 300 How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism --- and Tallulah Bankhead's Phallus / Edward O'Neill 316 V. Taste 339 "It Will Get a Terrific Laugh": On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor / Louis Kaplan 343 The Sound of Disaffection / Tony Grajeda 357 Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon / Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio 376 "Racial Cross-Dressing" in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife / Nicholas M. Evans 388 The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia's New York / Anna McCarthy 415 Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston's Combat Zone / Eric Schaefer and Eithne Johnson 430 VI. Change 455 On Thrifting / Matthew Tinkcom, Joy Van Fuqua, and Amy Villarejo 459 Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century / Elana Crane 472 Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism / Greg M. Smith 487 The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom / Angela Ndalianis 503 Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett / Tara McPherson 517 VII. Home 535 "The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know": Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey / Nabeel Zuberi 539 Finding One's Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity / Maria Koundoura 556 As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other / Aniko Bodroghkozy 566 Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France / Catherine Palmer 589 Narrativizing Cyper-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery / Ellen Strain 605 Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies / John Hartley 622 VIII. Emotion 647 "Ain't I de One Everybody Come to See?!" Popular Memories of Uncle Tom's Cabin / Robyn R. Warhol 650 Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women's Power / Kathleen Green 670 "Have You Seen This Child?" From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abime / Eric Freedman 689 Introducing Horror / Charles E. Weigl 700 About the Contributors 721 Name Index 733
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