Myth Fan Culture And The Popular Appeal Of Liminality In The Music Of U2
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Myth Fan Culture And The Popular Appeal Of Liminality In The Music Of U2
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Author : Brian Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-11-08
Myth Fan Culture And The Popular Appeal Of Liminality In The Music Of U2 written by Brian Johnston and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
U2’s ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and nihilism; finding meaning in a surface-oriented popular culture and contradiction in the depths of political and faith-based institutions. The band’s long-term success and continued relevance is a result of their ability to hold these energies in tension without one subsuming the other—to live in the liminal space that such contradictions invite. U2’s mythic trajectory was born from a bygone electronic era, realized in our current digital era but with an eye on the forthcoming virtual era; it is a new myth for the whole world, found in the most unlikely of places, popular culture. This book approaches the band’s mythic trajectory through a combination of rhetorical analysis and autoethnographic explorations that unveil the more personal experiences most of us have with media. Drawing heavily upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2 unpacks U2’s popular appeal through the lenses of Agape (spiritual, communal love), Amor (romantic love), and Eros (erotic love). Check out the book's official website for additional information: https//:www.u2mythos.com
Wounded Masculinity And The Search For Father Self In American Film
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Author : Susan Mackey-Kallis
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2023-12-15
Wounded Masculinity And The Search For Father Self In American Film written by Susan Mackey-Kallis and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-15 with Performing Arts categories.
This book analyzes popular American films that point to the need for father atonement, ego-decentering, and the resurrection of the lost feminine to heal gendered cultural wounds, while affirming the role of meaningful suffering, compassion, self-sacrifice and transcendence as an antidote to the inevitable woundedness of the human condition.
The Information Behavior Of Wikipedia Fan Editors
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Author : Paul A. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-07-30
The Information Behavior Of Wikipedia Fan Editors written by Paul A. Thomas and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-30 with Social Science categories.
Situated at the intersection of library and information science (LIS), Wikipedia studies, and fandom studies, this book is a digital (auto)ethnography that documents the information behavior of Wikipedia “fan editors”—that is, individuals who edit articles about pop culture media. Given Wikipedia’s prominence in LIS and fan studies scholarship, both as one of the world’s most heavily used reference sources and as an important archive for fan communities, fan editors are a crucial component of this ecosystem as some of Wikipedia’s most active contributors. Through a combination of fieldwork observations, insight from key informants, and the author’s own experiences as a Wikipedia editor, this monograph provides a rich articulation of fan editor information behavior and offers a significant contribution to scholarship in a number of fields. Scholars of library and information science, media studies, fandom studies, and popular culture will find this book of particular interest.
Love Language Place And Identity In Popular Culture
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Author : María Ramos-García
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-31
Love Language Place And Identity In Popular Culture written by María Ramos-García and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and other fiction with strong romantic plots. Contributors’ approaches range from sociolinguistics to cultural studies, and the texts analyzed are set on four continents, with particular emphasis on Caribbean and Atlantic islands. What all the essays have in common is the exploration of representations of the Other, be it in an inter-racial or inter-cultural relationship. Chapters are divided into two parts; the first examines place, travel, history, and language in 20th-century texts; while the second explores tensions and transformations in the depiction of Otherness, mainly in texts published in the early 21st century. This book reveals that even at the end of the 20th century, these texts display neocolonialist attitudes towards the Other. While more recent texts show noticeable changes in attitudes, these changes can often fall short, as stereotypes and prejudices are often still present, just below the surface, in popular novels. The understudied field of popular romance, in which the Other is frequently present as a love interest, proves to be a fruitful area in which to explore the potential and the realities of the treatment of Otherness in popular culture. Scholars of literature, communication, romance, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.
Political Economy Of Contemporary African Popular Culture
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Author : Kealeboga Aiseng
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2024-04
Political Economy Of Contemporary African Popular Culture written by Kealeboga Aiseng and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Drawing on examples from across the continent, this volume examines socially significant aspects of contemporary African popular culture—including music cultures, fandoms, and community, mass, and digital media—to demonstrate how neoliberal politics and market forces shape the cultural landscape and vice versa. Contributors investigate the role that the media, politicians, and corporate interests play in shaping that landscape, highlight the crucial role of the African people in the production and circulation of popular culture more broadly, and, furthermore, demonstrate how popular culture can be used as a tool to resist oppressive regimes and challenge power structures in the African context. Scholars of political communication, cultural studies, and African studies will find this book particularly useful.
Examining Blank Spaces And The Taylor Swift Phenomenon
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Author : Keith Nainby
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2024-08-15
Examining Blank Spaces And The Taylor Swift Phenomenon written by Keith Nainby and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-15 with Music categories.
Examining Blank Spaces and the Taylor Swift Phenomenon: An Investigation of Contingent Identities examines Taylor Swift’s art, her public image, and Swiftie fan communities. Keith Nainby argues that Swift’s songs offer a consistent focus on evolving identities, helping create the unique character of Swiftie fan communities.
Pop Culture Yoga
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Author : Kristen C. Blinne
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-23
Pop Culture Yoga written by Kristen C. Blinne and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-23 with Health & Fitness categories.
Pop Culture Yoga: A Communication Remix was born out of a series of questions about the paradoxical nature of yoga: How do individuals and groups define yoga? What does it mean to “practice yoga,” and what does this practice involve? What are some of the most important principles, guidelines, or philosophical tenets of yoga that shape people’s definitions and practices? Who has the power and authority to define yoga? What are the limits, if any, of shared definitions of yoga? Kristen C. Blinne explores the myriad ways “yoga” is communicatively constructed and defined in and through popular culture in the United States. In doing so, Blinne offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, illuminating how individuals’ and groups’ words and actions represent practices of claiming—part of a complex communicative process centered around membership categorization—based on a range of authenticity discourses. Employing popular culture writing styles, Blinne ultimately contends that the majority of yoga styles practiced in the United States are remixes that can be classified as pop culture yoga, a distinct way of understanding this complex phenomenon.
Communicating With Memes
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Author : Grant Kien
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-06-03
Communicating With Memes written by Grant Kien and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment, the election of Donald Trump, and the resurgence of once-eradicated diseases. The author examines the causes of these consequences, and what action—if any—should be taken in response.
Communication In Kink
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Author : Jessica M. W. Kratzer
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Communication In Kink written by Jessica M. W. Kratzer and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-29 with Social Science categories.
This edited collection focuses on varying communication perspectives in the Fifty Shades of Grey series. In particular, the chapters focus on kinky people’s perceptions of the series; consent, ownership, feminist desire in 24/7 BDSM; erotic romance writing in the post Fifty Shades of Grey landscape; sexual education; news coverage of the series; the rhetoric used in the series; and depictions of consent. The contributors address how a series as dominant in popular culture as Fifty Shades of Grey can affect people involved in a community, those on the outside, and those waiting for an opportunity to explore. Scholars of popular culture, communication, media studies, literary studies, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.
Organizational Communication Approaches To The Works Of Joss Whedon
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Author : Andrew F. Herrmann
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-12-02
Organizational Communication Approaches To The Works Of Joss Whedon written by Andrew F. Herrmann and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with Social Science categories.
In Organizational Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon, Andrew F. Herrmann offers an in-depth analysis of the connections between communication, organization, gender, discourse, and ethics in the works of Joss Whedon. Herrmann examines how characters go to work in organizations, how characters fight against organizations, and how some organizations themselves are characters. Whedon’s works offer both popular and scholarly appeal, often including portrayals of organizations, such as The Union of Allied Planets in Firefly and Serenity and S.H.I.E.L.D. in The Avengers and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Herrmann argues that by looking at how Whedon portrays these organizations—including the ways in which employees are impacted by their organizations and how decision-making is affected by gender, masculinity, and economic discourses—we can gain fresh insights into our own working lives. Scholars of film studies, organizational communication, gender, rhetoric, and ethics will find this book particularly useful.
