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  1. Abenteuer in der Moderne
    Contributor: Grill, Oliver (Herausgeber); Obermayr, Brigitte (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Brill | Wilhelm Fink, Paderborn

    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg
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    Contributor: Grill, Oliver (Herausgeber); Obermayr, Brigitte (Herausgeber)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783846765166
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    RVK Categories: EC 6844
    DDC Categories: 800
    Series: Philologie des Abenteuers ; Band 2
    Subjects: Abenteuer <Motiv>; Literatur; Abenteuerroman
    Other subjects: Narratologie; Psychoanalyse; Postcolonial Studies; Literaturgeschichte; Trivialliteratur; Schemaliteratur; Russischer Formalismus; Sozialistischer Realismus; narratology; psychoanalysis; postcolonial studies; history of literature; popular culture; russian formalism; socialist realism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 308 Seiten), Illustrationen
  2. Carlos Gardel. Su vida, su música, su época
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Ariadna Ediciones

    Biography of one of the leading figures of Argentine tango, Carlos Gardel. more

     

    Biography of one of the leading figures of Argentine tango, Carlos Gardel.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Spanish; Spanish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Latin America; Popular culture
    Other subjects: argentina; popular culture; songs; tango
  3. Zombies in Western Culture : A Twenty-First Century Crisis
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Open Book Publishers

    "Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety... more

     

    "Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it.

    The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie.

    Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology. "

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Popular culture; Media studies
    Other subjects: western culture; crisis of meaning; cultural studies; apocalypse; alienation; popular culture; zombies; media studies; Suicide; Worldview
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (104 p.)
  4. Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling
    Contributor: Guynes, Sean A. (Publisher); Hassler-Forest, Dan (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    The collection places Star Wars at the center of those studies’ projects by examining video games, novels and novelizations, comics, advertising practices, television shows, franchising models, aesthetic and economic decisions, fandom and cultural... more

     

    The collection places Star Wars at the center of those studies’ projects by examining video games, novels and novelizations, comics, advertising practices, television shows, franchising models, aesthetic and economic decisions, fandom and cultural responses, and other aspects of Star Wars and its world-building in their multiple contexts of production, distribution, and reception. In emphasizing that Star Wars is both a media franchise and a transmedia storyworld, Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling demonstrates the ways in which transmedia storytelling and the industrial logic of media franchising have developed in concert over the past four decades, as multinational corporations have become the central means for subsidizing, profiting from, and selling modes of immersive storyworlds to global audiences. By taking this dual approach, the book focuses on the interconnected nature of corporate production, fan consumption, and transmedia world-building. As such, this collection grapples with the historical, cultural, aesthetic, and political-economic implications of the relationship between media franchising and transmedia storytelling as they are seen at work in the world’s most profitable transmedia franchise.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Guynes, Sean A. (Publisher); Hassler-Forest, Dan (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789462986213
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: transmedia; star wars; popular culture; science fiction; media franchising
  5. Popular Music, Stars and Stardom
    Contributor: Loy, Stephen (Publisher); Rickwood, Julie (Publisher); Bennett, Samantha (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty‑first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern... more

     

    A popular fascination with fame and stardom has existed in Western culture since the late eighteenth century; a fascination that, in the twenty‑first century, reaches into almost every facet of public life. The pervasive nature of stardom in modern society demands study from the perspectives of a range of distinct but thematically connected disciplines. The exploration of intersections between broader considerations of stardom and the discourses of popular music studies is the genesis for this volume. The chapters collected here demonstrate the variety of work currently being undertaken in stardom studies by scholars in Australia. The contributions range from biographical considerations of the stars of popular music, contributions to critical discourses of stardom in the industry more broadly, and the various ways in which the use of astronomical metaphors, in both cultural commentary and academic discourse, demonstrate notions of stardom firmly embedded in popular music thought. Not only do these chapters represent a range of perspectives on popular music, stars and stardom, they provide eloquent and innovative contributions to the developing discourse on stardom in popular music.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Loy, Stephen (Publisher); Rickwood, Julie (Publisher); Bennett, Samantha (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781760462123
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    Subjects: Music; Popular culture; Media, information & communication industries
    Other subjects: Popular music; Rock music; stardom; popular culture; Australia; Barcelona; Beyoncé; Jazz; Motown; Saddington
  6. Chapter 3 The “Shiba view of history” and Japan–Korea relations : Reading, watching and travelling Clouds Above the Hill
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the... more

     

    "This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.

     

    Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroot challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.

     

    Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the ‘popular’ are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely."

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Parent title: Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
    Subjects: JF; JFSL; JFCA; GTB; Society & culture: general; Popular culture
    Other subjects: social science; popular culture; regional studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (14 p.)
  7. Popular Culture and the Transformation of Japan–Korea Relations
    Contributor: Sakamoto, Rumi (Publisher); Epstein, Stephen (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    "This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations. Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the... more

     

    "This book presents essays exploring the ways in which popular culture reflects and engenders ongoing changes in Japan–Korea relations.

     

    Through a broad temporal coverage from the colonial period to the contemporary, the book’s chapters analyse the often contradictory roles that popular culture has played in either promoting or impeding nationalisms, regional conflict and reconciliations between Japan and Korea. Its contributors link several key areas of interest in East Asian Studies, including conflicts over historical memories and cultural production, grassroot challenges to state ideology, and the consequences of digital technology in Japan and South Korea.

     

    Taking recent discourse on Japan and South Korea as popular cultural superpowers further, this book expands its focus from mainstream entertainment media to the lived experience of daily life, in which sentiments and perceptions of the ‘popular’ are formed. It will be useful to students and scholars of Japanese and Korean studies, as well as film studies, media studies and cultural studies more widely."

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Sakamoto, Rumi (Publisher); Epstein, Stephen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: JF; JFSL; JFCA; GTB; Society & culture: general; Popular culture
    Other subjects: social science; popular culture; regional studies
  8. Capital at the Brink: Overcoming the Destructive Legacies of Neoliberalism
    Contributor: Leo, Jeffrey R. Di (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Open Humanities Press

    Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s... more

     

    Capital at the Brink reveals the pervasiveness, destructiveness, and dominance of neoliberalism within American society and culture. The contributors to this collection also offer points of resistance to an ideology wherein, to borrow Henry Giroux’s comment, “everything either is for sale or is plundered for profit.” The first step in fighting neoliberalism is to make it visible. By discussing various inroads that it has made into political, popular, and literary culture, Capital at the Brink is taking this first step and joining a global resistance that works against neoliberalism by revealing the variety of ways in which it dominates and destroys various dimensions of our social and cultural life. With essays by Paul A. Passavant, Noah De Lissovoy, Robert P. Marzec, Jennifer Wingard, Zahi Zalloua, Jodi Dean, Andrew Baerg, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Christopher Breu and Uppinder Mehan.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Leo, Jeffrey R. Di (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: USA; Literature & literary studies; Society & social sciences; Society & culture: general; Popular culture; Economics; Political economy
    Other subjects: american culture; literary culture; neoliberalism; american society; popular culture; political culture; Neoliberalism
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (277 p.)
  9. Post Memes : Seizing the Memes of Production
    Contributor: Bown, Alfie (Publisher); Bristow , Dan (Publisher)
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation -- memes are the inner currency of the internet’s circulatory system.... more

     

    Art-form, send-up, farce, ironic disarticulation, pastiche, propaganda, trololololol, mode of critique, mode of production, means of politicisation, even of subjectivation -- memes are the inner currency of the internet’s circulatory system. Independent of any one set value, memes are famously the mode of conveyance for the alt-right, the irony left, and the apoliticos alike,  and they are impervious to many economic valuations: the attempts made in co-opting their discourse in advertising and big business have made little headway, and have usually been derailed by retaliative meming. Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production takes advantage of the meme’s subversive adaptability and ripeness for a focused, in-depth study. Pulling together the interrogative forces of a raft of thinkers at the forefront of tech theory and media dissection, this collection of essays paves a way to articulating the semiotic fabric of the early 21st century’s most prevalent means of content posting, and aims at the very seizing of the memes of production for the imagining and creation of new political horizons.With contributions from Scott and McKenzie Wark, Patricia Reed, Jay Owens, Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, Dominic Pettman, Bogna M. Konior, and Eric Wilson, among others, this essay volume offers the freshest approaches available in the field of memes studies and inaugurates a new kind of writing about the newest manifestations of the written online. The book aims to become the go-to resource for all students and scholars of memes, and will be of the utmost interest to anyone interested in the internet’s most viral phenomenon.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Bown, Alfie (Publisher); Bristow , Dan (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781950192441
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: memes; media studies; popular culture; Digital Humanities; technology; social media; internet culture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (423 p.)
  10. Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented... more

     

    "The 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster (collectively referred to as ‘3.11’, the date of the earthquake), had a lasting impact on Japan’s identity and global image. In its immediate aftermath, mainstream media presented the country as a disciplined, resilient and composed nation, united in the face of a natural disaster. However, 3.11 also drew worldwide attention to the negative aspects of Japanese government and society, thought to have caused the unresolved situation at Fukushima.

     

    Spurred by heightened emotions following the triple disaster, the Japanese became increasingly polarised between these two views of how to represent themselves. How did literature and popular culture respond to this dilemma? Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima attempts to answer that question by analysing how Japan was portrayed in post-3.11 fiction. Texts are selected from the Japanese, English and French languages, and the portrayals are also compared with those from non-fiction discourse. This book argues that cultural responses to 3.11 had a significant role to play in re-imagining Japan after Fukushima."

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Japan; Natural disasters; Social impact of disasters; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
    Other subjects: Fukushima; natural disaster; nuclear disaster; Japan; literary studies; popular culture; cultural studies
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (174 p.)
  11. Rasende Reporter : Eine Kulturgeschichte des Fotojournalismus. Fotografie, Presse und Gesellschaft in Österreich 1890 bis 1945
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Primus Verlag, Darmstadt

    The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945 Thema des Buches ist die Entstehungsgeschichte des modernen Fotojournalismus zwischen 1890 und 1945 more

     

    The book deals with the genesis of modern photojournalism between 1890 an 1945 Thema des Buches ist die Entstehungsgeschichte des modernen Fotojournalismus zwischen 1890 und 1945

     

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  12. War as Entertainment and Contents Tourism in Japan
    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions:... more

     

    This book examines the phenomenon of war-related contents tourism throughout Japanese history, from conflicts described in ancient Japanese myth through to contemporary depictions of fantasy and futuristic warfare. It tackles two crucial questions: first, how does war transition from being traumatic to entertaining in the public imagination and works of popular culture; and second, how does visitation to war-related sites transition from being an act of mourning or commemorative pilgrimage into an act of devotion or fan pilgrimage? Representing the collaboration of ten expert researchers of Japanese popular culture and travel, it develops a theoretical framework for understanding war-related contents tourism and demonstrates the framework in practice via numerous short case studies across a millennium of warfare in Japan including: the tales of heroic deities in the Kojiki (Records of Ancient Matters, AD 712), the Edo poetry of Matsuo Basho, and the Pacific war through lens of popular media such as the animated film the Grave of the Fireflies. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in tourism studies and cultural studies, as well as more general issues of war and peace in Japan, East Asia and beyond.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Yamamura, Takayoshi (Publisher); Seaton, Philip (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781003239970; 9781000603590; 9781032145693; 9781032145679
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    Subjects: Travel & holiday; Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: contents tourism; dark tourism; heritage tourism; popular culture; Russo-Japanese War; samurai; World War II; war
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (176 p.)
  13. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in... more

     

    Visions of the American city in post-apocalyptic ruin permeate literary and popular fiction, across print, visual, audio and digital media. American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction explores the prevalence of these representations in American culture, drawing from a wide range of primary and critical works from the early-twentieth century to today. Beginning with science fiction in literary magazines, before taking in radio dramas, film, video games and expansive transmedia franchises, Robert Yeates argues that post-apocalyptic representations of the American city are uniquely suited for explorations of contemporary urban issues. Examining how the post-apocalyptic American city has been repeatedly adapted and repurposed to new and developing media over the last century, this book reveals that the content and form of such texts work together to create vivid and immersive fictional spaces in ways that would otherwise not be possible. Chapters present media-specific analyses of these texts, situating them within their historical contexts and the broader history of representations of urban ruins in American fiction. Original in its scope and cross-media approach, American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction both illuminates little-studied texts and provides provocative new readings of familiar works such as Blade Runner and The Walking Dead, placing them within the larger historical context of imaginings of the American city in ruins.

     

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  14. The Global Smartphone : Beyond a youth technology

    The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on... more

     

    The smartphone is often literally right in front of our nose, so you would think we would know what it is. But do we? To find out, 11 anthropologists each spent 16 months living in communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, focusing on the take up of smartphones by older people. Their research reveals that smartphones are technology for everyone, not just for the young. The Global Smartphone presents a series of original perspectives deriving from this global and comparative research project. Smartphones have become as much a place within which we live as a device we use to provide ‘perpetual opportunism’, as they are always with us. The authors show how the smartphone is more than an ‘app device’ and explore differences between what people say about smartphones and how they use them. The smartphone is unprecedented in the degree to which we can transform it. As a result, it quickly assimilates personal values. In order to comprehend it, we must take into consideration a range of national and cultural nuances, such as visual communication in China and Japan, mobile money in Cameroon and Uganda, and access to health information in Chile and Ireland – all alongside diverse trajectories of ageing in Al Quds, Brazil and Italy. Only then can we know what a smartphone is and understand its consequences for people’s lives around the world.

     

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  15. Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland : When life becomes craft
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing. Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the... more

     

    There are not many books about how people get younger. It doesn’t happen very often. But Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland documents a radical change in the experience of ageing. Based on two ethnographies, one within Dublin and the other from the Dublin region, the book shows that people, rather than seeing themselves as old, focus on crafting a new life in retirement. Our research participants apply new ideals of sustainability both to themselves and to their environment. They go for long walks, play bridge, do yoga, and keep as healthy as possible. As part of Ireland’s mainstream middle class, they may have more time than the young to embrace green ideals and more money to move to energy-efficient homes, throw out household detritus and protect their environment. The smartphone has become integral to this new trajectory. For some it is an intimidating burden linked to being on the wrong side of a new digital divide. But for most, however, it has brought back the extended family and old friends, and helped resolve intergenerational conflicts though facilitating new forms of grandparenting. It has also become central to health issues, whether by Googling information or looking after frail parents. The smartphone enables this sense of getting younger as people download the music of their youth and develop new interests. This is a book about acknowledging late middle age in contemporary Ireland. How do older people in Ireland experience life today? Praise for Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland 'An innovative and thorough description and analysis of how one small piece of technology has changed the way Irish people live their lives.' Tom Inglis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology in University College Dublin ; 'An innovative and thorough description and analysis of how one small piece of technology has changed the way Irish people live their lives.' Tom Inglis, Professor Emeritus of Sociology in University College Dublin

     

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  16. Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy : Care and community in Milan and beyond
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  UCL Press, London

    ‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological... more

     

    ‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and spaces beyond.Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy explores ageing and digital technologies amidst a backdrop of rapid global technological innovation, including mHealth (mobile health) and smart cities, and a number of wider socio-economic and technological transformations that have brought about significant changes in how people live, work and retire, and how they communicate and care for each other. Based on 16 months of urban digital ethnographic research in Milan, the smartphone is shown to be a ‘constant companion’ in, of and for contemporary life. It accompanies people throughout the day and night, and through individual and collective experiences of movement, change and rupture. Smartphone practices tap into and reflect the moral anxieties of the present moment, while posing questions related to life values and purpose, identities and belonging, privacy and sociability. Through her extensive investigation, Shireen Walton argues that ageing with smartphones in this contemporary urban Italian context is about living with ambiguity, change and contradiction, as well as developing curiosities about a changing world, our changing selves, and changing relationships with and to others. Ageing with smartphones is about figuring out how best to live together, differently.

     

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  17. Gewalt im Computerspiel : Facetten eines Vergnügens
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

    Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counterstrike – more and more, violence in computer games is becoming the subject of heated discussion. But what emotional experiences does the playful use of virtual violence make possible? Through participato... more

     

    Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counterstrike – more and more, violence in computer games is becoming the subject of heated discussion. But what emotional experiences does the playful use of virtual violence make possible? Through participato observation in online games and at LAN parties and analyses of interviews, magazines, and videos, Christopher Bareither presents in detail how millions of people can take pleasure from that which would shock others. By refraining from judgmental cliches, this ethnographic study is able to provide a decisive contribution to a debate at the crossroads of popular culture, politics, and the public sphere. Grand Theft Auto, Battlefield, Counter-Strike – Gewalt in Computerspielen wird immer wieder kontrovers diskutiert. Doch welche emotionalen Erfahrungen ermöglicht der spielerische Umgang mit virtueller Gewalt? Durch teilnehmende Beobachtungen in Online-Games und auf LAN-Partys sowie mithilfe von Interview-, Zeitschriften- und Videoanalysen arbeitet Christoph Bareither heraus, wie Millionen von Menschen etwas als vergnüglich erleben können, was andere schockiert. Ohne wertende Klischees zu bedienen, leistet die ethnografische Studie damit einen entscheidenden Beitrag zu einer Debatte am Schnittfeld von Populärkultur, Politik und Öffentlichkeit.

     

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  18. Creative Crowds : Perspektiven der Fanforschung im deutschsprachigen Raum
    Contributor: Cuntz-Leng, Vera (Publisher)
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Büchner-Verlag, Darmstadt

    The notion of fans as hysterical teenagers, aggressive hooligans or nerdy loners has changed drastically. Whereas Trekkies, live-action role-players or Gothics were still viewed critically a few years ago, today everyone debates the »Hobbit« movies... more

     

    The notion of fans as hysterical teenagers, aggressive hooligans or nerdy loners has changed drastically. Whereas Trekkies, live-action role-players or Gothics were still viewed critically a few years ago, today everyone debates the »Hobbit« movies or the new »Sherlock« season and can buy their Ramones shirt at the discount store. Thanks to the Internet, fans have not only arrived in the mainstream, but have also become more mature and creative. For a long time now, they have not only devoted themselves to the adoration of their favorite characters and idols, they have also conquered a place in pop culture for themselves and their creative output. This volume brings together contributions from various disciplines on a multifaceted spectrum of fandoms, fan cultures, and fan creations in the German-speaking world: from soccer stadiums to online forums, from cosplayers to vidders, from Prince to »Twilight«. Die Vorstellungen von Fans als hysterischen Teenies, aggressiven Hooligans oder nerdigen Einzelgängern haben sich drastisch gewandelt. Wurden Trekkies, Live-Rollenspieler oder Gothics vor einigen Jahren noch kritisch beäugt, debattiert heute jeder über die »Hobbit«-Filme oder die neue »Sherlock«-Staffel und kann sein Ramones-Shirt beim Discounter kaufen. Durch das Internet sind Fans nicht nur im Mainstream angekommen, sondern mündiger und kreativer geworden. Längst geben sie sich nicht mehr nur der Verehrung ihrer Lieblingsfiguren und Idole hin, sie erobern auch für sich selbst und ihren kreativen Output einen Platz in der Popkultur. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zu einem facettenreichen Spektrum von Fandoms, Fankulturen und Fankreationen im deutschsprachigen Raum: vom Fußballstadion bis ins Onlineforum, von Cosplayern zu Viddern, von Prince bis »Twilight«.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Contributor: Cuntz-Leng, Vera (Publisher)
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 978-3-96317-709-5; 9783963177095; 9783941310421
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    Subjects: Media studies
    Other subjects: fandom; popular culture; fan fiction; social media; Lord of the Weed; cosplay; transmedia storytelling; sports fans
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (408 p.)
  19. Time Travel
    The Popular Philosophy of Narrative
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are... more

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    This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are represented in the form of literal devices and plots.Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, the book links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from evolutionary biology in the late 1800s, through relativity and quantum physics in the mid–20th century, to more recent "multiverse" cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how increasing awareness of new scientific models leads to surprising innovations in the literary "time machine," which evolves from a "vehicle" used chiefly for sociopolitical commentary into a psychological and narratological device capable of exploring with great sophistication the temporal structure and significance of subjects, viewpoints, and historical events.The book covers work by well-known time travel writers such as H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, as well as pulp fiction writers of the 1920s through the 1940s, popular and avant-garde postwar science fiction, television shows such as "The Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek," andcurrent cinema. Literature, film, and TV are read alongside theoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrödinger, and Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same questions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780823273348
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    Subjects: film; narrative theory; narratology; philosophy of time; popular culture; science fiction; television; time travel; PHILOSOPHY / General; Literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Time perception in literature; Time travel in literature
    Scope: 1 online resource (320 pages)
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  20. Murakami Haruki and our years of pilgrimage
    Contributor: Hansen, Gitte Marianne (Herausgeber, Verfasser); Tsang, Michael (Herausgeber, Verfasser)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high-profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary... more

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    This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high-profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary perspectives, discussing their significance and value through the lenses of history; geography; politics; gender and sexuality; translation; and literary influence and circulation. Together the chapters provide a multifaceted assessment on Murakami’s literary oeuvre in the last four decades, vouching for its continuous importance in understanding the world and Japan in contemporary times. The book also features exclusive material that includes the cultural critic Kato Norihiro’s final work on Murakami – his chapter here is one of the few works ever translated into English – to interviews with Murakami and discussions from his translators and editors, shedding light not only on Murakami’s works as literature but as products of cross-cultural exchanges.Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage will prove a valuable resource for students and scholars of Japanese studies, comparative and world literature, cultural studies, and beyond.

     

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  21. War in film
    semiotics and conflict related sign constructions on the screen
    Contributor: Jacob, Frank (Herausgeber, Verfasser)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Büchner-Verlag, Marburg

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  22. Fashion and masculinities in popular culture
    Published: 2017; © 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; London

    Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book... more

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    Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have evolved from the postwar era and their relationship to fashion to the present day. As well as demonstrating the role of male icons in contemporary society, this book’s originality also lies in showing the many gender slippages that these icons help to effect or expose. It is by exploring the somewhat inviolate types accorded to contemporary masculinity that we see the very fragility of a stable or rounded male identity.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781138658684; 9780367333188
    Series: Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 113
    Subjects: Männlichkeit <Motiv>; Herrenmode; Massenkultur
    Other subjects: SOC052000; DESIGN / Fashion; ART / Popular Culture; body; cultural studies; gender; hero; history; masculinity; popular culture; postwar; queer studies
    Scope: viii, 185 Seiten, Illustrationen
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    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke

    Introduction1. Vampire Dandies1.1 The Dandy1.2 The "Crisis of Masculinity"1.3 Metrosexuality and the Cult of Self1.4 The vampire of Capital and Commodity1.5 Queer Vampire Masculinities2. Playboys2.1 Commodified Masculinities2.2 On the Virtues of Bachelorhood2.3 The Bachelor Pad, or the Sexual Lair2.4 James Bond 0072.5 Fashioning 0073. Hipsters3.1 The White Negro3.2 Hipster vs Beatnik3.3 Hipster Style4. Sailors4.1 Men in Uniform4.2 The Seepage of Sailor into Life and Lore4.4 Sailors Big and Small4.5 Disciplined but Naughty Boys4.6 Bell Bottoms and Fly Fronts4.7 Sailor Chic. From Boardwalk to Catwalk.5. Cowboys and Bushmen5.1 Unknown Frontiers5.2 Celluloid Cowboys5.3 The Australian Bushman5.4 Bushwear for Bushmen6. Leather Men6.1 Reel Men6.2 The Black Leather Motorcycle Jacket6.3 Leathermen6.4 Men of Rock6.5 Greesers and Punks7. Superheroes7.1 The Origin Stories7.2 Masked Masculinity and the Phallic Hero7.3 The Costume, or the Superheros Struggle with Fashion7.4 The Fabric of Superheroes7.5 Everyone’s a Superhero. Role-Play and Cosplay7.6 Who Does Batman Bat for?8. Gangstas8.1 "Ghettocentricity" and Street Cred8.2 Early Gangsta Style. Pachucos and the Zoot Suit8.3 Leave Political Correctness at the Door. Gangsta’s Paradise8.4 The Tyranny of Masculinity8.5 White GangstasConclusion

  23. Work: The labors of language, culture, and history in North America
    Contributor: Ramírez, J. Jesse (Herausgeber); Quaßdorf, Sixta (Herausgeber)
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Narr Francke Attempto, Tübingen

    Like all fundamental categories, work becomes ever more complex as we examine it more closely. The terms "work," "labor," "job," "employment," "occupation," "profession," "vocation," "task," "toil," "effort," "pursuit," and "calling" form a dense web... more

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    Like all fundamental categories, work becomes ever more complex as we examine it more closely. The terms "work," "labor," "job," "employment," "occupation," "profession," "vocation," "task," "toil," "effort," "pursuit," and "calling" form a dense web of overlapping and contrasting meanings. Moreover, the analysis of work must contend with how histories of class struggle, gendered and sexual divisions of labor, racial hierarchies, and citizenship regimes have determined who counts as a worker and qualifies for the rights, protections, and social respect thereof. And yet waged work is only the tip of an enormous iceberg that feminist theorists call "socially reproductive labor"—the gendered, mostly unpaid, and hidden work of caring for, feeding, nursing, and teaching the next generation of workers. This collection of essays explores the richness of work as a linguistic, cultural, and historical concept and the conjunctures that are changing work and its worlds.

     

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    Contributor: Ramírez, J. Jesse (Herausgeber); Quaßdorf, Sixta (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783823385028
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    9783823385028
    RVK Categories: HU 1460 ; HR 1706
    Series: SPELL ; volume 40
    Subjects: Medien; Arbeit <Motiv>; Massenkultur; Literatur
    Other subjects: Nordamerika; Verstehen; Amerikanische Literatur; Amerikanische Geschichte; Populärkultur; Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie; Taschenbuch / Sprachwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft/Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Work; Labor; American Studies; American Literature; American History; popular culture; medi
    Scope: 213 Seiten
    Notes:

    Jesse Ramírez and Sixta Quassdorf; Introduction; Rebekka Rohleder ; "Happy People at Work": The Normal and the Marginal in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last; Fabian Eggers; "Quality Time" with David Foster Wallace: Emotional Labor in The Pale King; Anne Mulhall ; Impotentiality in Anne Boyer's Garments Against Women; Juliane Strätz; Revolt qua Passivity? Getting High and Staying in with Ottessa Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation; Rita Filanti; A "Good Job" for the Animal Laborans: Mike Gold's and Tillie Olsen's Proletarian Novels of the 1930s; Christian Hänggi; Bezos v. Marx: South Park's First Real Labor Episodes; Johannes Fehrle; "Working the People, Working the Earth": Representing the Exploitation of People and the Environment in African American Slave Narratives; Simon Trüb; Precarious Lives and the Rebirth of Tragedy in Contemporary American Drama; Elizabeth Kovach; A Framework for Reading US-American Literary Expression in Terms of Conditions, Ethics, and Values of Work; Salem Elzway ; Subliminal Gears: Racework and Robots in Cold War America; Eva Ward; Drug Policy, Labor, and the US Colonial Experiment in the Philippines; Notes on Contributors

  24. Rezeptionskulturen
    Fünfhundert Jahre literarischer Mittelalterrezeption zwischen Kanon und Populärkultur
    Published: [2012]; ©2012
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

    Für die Selbstbestimmung der Moderne ist kaum etwas konstitutiver als ihre Positionsbestimmung gegenüber der ,Vormoderne'. Deshalb bietet Mittelalterrezeption nicht allein den Nachklang mittelalterlicher Texte und Themen als Sekundärphänomen, sondern... more

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    Für die Selbstbestimmung der Moderne ist kaum etwas konstitutiver als ihre Positionsbestimmung gegenüber der ,Vormoderne'. Deshalb bietet Mittelalterrezeption nicht allein den Nachklang mittelalterlicher Texte und Themen als Sekundärphänomen, sondern einen zentralen Diskursraum zur historischen Identitätsbildung von modernen Individuen und Kultursystemen. Im historischen Durchgang durch fünf Jahrhunderte, vom Humanismus bis zur Gegenwart und von Jörg Wickram bis zu Dan Brown, behandelt der Band Grundsatzfragen der Formen und Funktionen von Mittelalterrezeption und entwickelt dabei ein spezifisches Konzept von ,Rezeptionskulturen': Neben historischen Milieus wie Humanismus, Romantik und Historismus werden dabei insbesondere die synchronen Rezeptionskulturen von Kanon und Populärkultur nebeneinandergehalten. Ist es doch auffällig, dass das Mittelalter ausgerechnet Autoren von diskursiv entgegengesetzten Enden des literarischen Feldes anzieht. Es bietet sich sowohl für Schriftsteller mit Unterhaltungsabsichten an, die Mysteriöses, Esoterisches und Drastisches suchen, wie auch für Autoren, die elitäre und gelehrte Konzepte durch Rückbezug auf ein klerikales und feudales, mithin lateinisch geprägtes Zeitalter zu füllen beabsichtigen

     

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    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110264999
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: Trends in Medieval Philology ; 27
    Other subjects: Kanon; Literary Studies; Literaturwissenschaft; Middle Ages; Mittelalter / Literatur; Populäre Kultur; Rezeption / Literatur; canon; popular culture; reception; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
    Scope: 1 online resource (454 p.)
  25. TangoMedia
    multimodality matters
    Contributor: Kailuweit, Rolf (Herausgeber); Tölke, Vanessa (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Rombach Wissenschaft, Baden-Baden

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    Contributor: Kailuweit, Rolf (Herausgeber); Tölke, Vanessa (Herausgeber)
    Language: German; English; Multiple languages
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9783968216461; 3968216466
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    Edition: 1. Auflage
    Series: Freiburger romanistische Arbeiten ; Band 17
    Subjects: Tango <Motiv>; Medien; Tango; Pop-Kultur
    Other subjects: Tanz; Tangotanzen; Río-de-la-Plata; Geschlechterrollen; Populärkultur; Mediatisierung; Argentinien; Uruguay; Radio; médiatisation; culture populaire; danse; dance; popular culture; Mediatization
    Scope: 298 Seiten, Illustrationen, Diagramme, 23 cm, 466 g
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    Titel auf dem Buchdeckel: TangoMedia