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Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Author : Elizabeth Marshall

Publisher : Rethinking Schools

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 13,23 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Computers

ISBN : 094296148X

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A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.



Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Author : Elizabeth Marshall

Publisher : Rethinking Schools

Page : 344 pages

File Size : 34,64 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Education

ISBN : 9780942961638

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Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the "popular" is political. Whether it's Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students' lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials "teach" children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action



Rethinking Popular Culture

Author : Chandra Mukerji

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 514 pages

File Size : 48,67 MB

Release : 1991-07-09

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780520068933

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Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture.



Rethinking Global Security

Author : Andrew Martin

Publisher : Rutgers University Press

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 29,14 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0813538300

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In Rethinking Global Security, Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.



Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Author : Stewart M. Hoover

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 345 pages

File Size : 18,90 MB

Release : 1997-01-31

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1452246459

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The growing connections between media, culture and religion are increasingly evident in contemporary society, but until now have rarely been theoretically linked. The contributors to this volume effectively combine these areas into a coherent whole. The issues they examine include: the decline of religious institutions during the late twentieth century; the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion; and the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices.



Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

Author : William Irwin

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 340 pages

File Size : 40,20 MB

Release : 2011-11-18

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1444390988

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What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix , X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself Supplementary website available with teaching guides, sample materials and links to further resources at www.pop-philosophy.org



Beyond Representational Correctness

Author : Edward Schiappa

Publisher : SUNY Press

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 38,71 MB

Release : 2008-03-27

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0791474232

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Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.



Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Author : Astrid M. Fellner

Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Page : 255 pages

File Size : 30,17 MB

Release : 2017-11-06

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1527505286

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This book explores popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century popular media. It brings together contributors from various European countries to investigate the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in a brave, original, and rigorous way. This volume is both an academic proposal and an exercise of commitment to a serious analysis of some of the media that influence us most in our everyday lives. Representation matters, and the position we take as viewers or consumers during reception matters even more.



Everything Bad is Good for You

Author : Steven Johnson

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 274 pages

File Size : 13,19 MB

Release : 2006-05-02

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1101158018

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From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now and Farsighted Forget everything you’ve ever read about the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification culture. In this provocative, unfailingly intelligent, thoroughly researched, and surprisingly convincing big idea book, Steven Johnson draws from fields as diverse as neuroscience, economics, and media theory to argue that the pop culture we soak in every day—from Lord of the Rings to Grand Theft Auto to The Simpsons—has been growing more sophisticated with each passing year, and, far from rotting our brains, is actually posing new cognitive challenges that are actually making our minds measurably sharper. After reading Everything Bad is Good for You, you will never regard the glow of the video game or television screen the same way again. With a new afterword by the author.



Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Author : Andrew F. Herrmann

Publisher : Lexington Books

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 32,66 MB

Release : 2016-10-12

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1498523935

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Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.