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Author: William P Huddy Publisher: Waterhill Publishing ISBN: 9781775309611 Category : Languages : en Pages : 180
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This book explores key questions about the role of intellectuals in popular culture. It also investigates the tensions and oppositions between entertainment, information, and education in films, television, news, and online productions. The authors of this edited volume rely on interdisciplinary approaches to bridge gaps in the often-binary debate about the value of mass-market media. They address the many transformations, both in the media industry and in society, that content producers, practitioners, critics, journalists, and scholars enable. The following questions are addressed: - What opportunities exist for celebrities and scholars to question social and media industry narratives and to act as activists?- Where can we situate social justice activism in film studies, and what are the historical roots of actress activism in patriarchal-capitalist Hollywood?- To what extent can reality television serve as public pedagogy, and could their presenters and cast members be considered intellectuals?- What kind of institutional constraints are imposed on media and news reporting?- Is there a beneficial middle ground between popular journalistic writing about movies and academic film criticism?- Is the intertwining of politics and entertainment helping the healthy functioning of democracy, and does it contribute to better awareness and knowledge of political issues by citizens?- How are socioeconomic and gender activism, social representations, media power relations, and self-reflexive provocation articulated in both film production and criticism?- How can filmmakers and film scholars resist Hollywood conventions and act as activists who influence the casting process, gender politics, and performance conventions?- Are movies constructing and supporting a conservative narrative of gender, one that revolves around white masculinity and heteronormative gender expectations?- How are celebrity and intellectual cultures affecting news reporting across television genres?- How do journalists perceive the role of university professors in the media and how do academics perceive their roles in television programs?- Given a fragmented audience, democratized reviewing platforms, and algorithm-driven rankings, what is the role of professionally trained critics?- What are the fundamental film language elements of online user-generated videos, and could thismedia permeate film and television production in the near future?- How do journalists negotiate their roles as 'gatekeepers' and professionals in an open, de-professionalized, and inherently participatory news environment
Author: William P Huddy Publisher: Waterhill Publishing ISBN: 9781775309611 Category : Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
This book explores key questions about the role of intellectuals in popular culture. It also investigates the tensions and oppositions between entertainment, information, and education in films, television, news, and online productions. The authors of this edited volume rely on interdisciplinary approaches to bridge gaps in the often-binary debate about the value of mass-market media. They address the many transformations, both in the media industry and in society, that content producers, practitioners, critics, journalists, and scholars enable. The following questions are addressed: - What opportunities exist for celebrities and scholars to question social and media industry narratives and to act as activists?- Where can we situate social justice activism in film studies, and what are the historical roots of actress activism in patriarchal-capitalist Hollywood?- To what extent can reality television serve as public pedagogy, and could their presenters and cast members be considered intellectuals?- What kind of institutional constraints are imposed on media and news reporting?- Is there a beneficial middle ground between popular journalistic writing about movies and academic film criticism?- Is the intertwining of politics and entertainment helping the healthy functioning of democracy, and does it contribute to better awareness and knowledge of political issues by citizens?- How are socioeconomic and gender activism, social representations, media power relations, and self-reflexive provocation articulated in both film production and criticism?- How can filmmakers and film scholars resist Hollywood conventions and act as activists who influence the casting process, gender politics, and performance conventions?- Are movies constructing and supporting a conservative narrative of gender, one that revolves around white masculinity and heteronormative gender expectations?- How are celebrity and intellectual cultures affecting news reporting across television genres?- How do journalists perceive the role of university professors in the media and how do academics perceive their roles in television programs?- Given a fragmented audience, democratized reviewing platforms, and algorithm-driven rankings, what is the role of professionally trained critics?- What are the fundamental film language elements of online user-generated videos, and could thismedia permeate film and television production in the near future?- How do journalists negotiate their roles as 'gatekeepers' and professionals in an open, de-professionalized, and inherently participatory news environment
Author: Andrew Ross Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135200491 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 300
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The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining social relations between classes.
Author: Daniel Horowitz Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812206495 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 505
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How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious or analytical discussion, let alone appreciation, of popular culture, which they viewed as morally questionable. Beginning in the 1950s, however, new perspectives emerged outside and within the United States that challenged this dominant thinking. Consuming Pleasures reveals how a group of writers shifted attention from condemnation to critical appreciation, critiqued cultural hierarchies and moralistic approaches, and explored the symbolic processes by which individuals and groups communicate. Historian Daniel Horowitz traces the emergence of these new perspectives through a series of intellectual biographies. With writers and readers from the United States at the center, the story begins in Western Europe in the early 1950s and ends in the early 1970s, when American intellectuals increasingly appreciated the rich inventiveness of popular culture. Drawing on sources both familiar and newly discovered, this transnational intellectual history plays familiar works off each other in fresh ways. Among those whose work is featured are Jürgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Walter Benjamin, C. L. R. James, David Riesman and Marshall McLuhan, Richard Hoggart, members of London's Independent Group, Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel, Tom Wolfe, Herbert Gans, Susan Sontag, Reyner Banham, and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
Author: Andrew Ross Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135200491 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 300
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The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture. Andrew Ross examines how and why the cultural authority of modern intellectuals is bound up with the changing face of popular taste in America. He argues that the making of "taste" is hardly an aesthetic activity, but rather an exercise in cultural power, policing and carefully redefining social relations between classes.
Author: Paul A. Cantor Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813140838 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 430
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“Analyzes how ideas about economics and political philosophy find their way into everything from Star Trek to Malcolm in the Middle.” —Wall Street Journal Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? In this groundbreaking work, Paul A. Cantor—whose previous book, Gilligan Unbound, was named one of the best nonfiction books of the year by the Los Angeles Times—explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other proponents of freedom, Cantor contrasts the classical liberal vision of America?particularly its emphasis on the virtues of spontaneous order?with the Marxist understanding of the “culture industry” and the Hobbesian model of absolute state control. The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture concludes with a discussion of the impact of 9/11 on film and television, and the new anxieties emerging in contemporary alien-invasion narratives: the fear of a global technocracy that seeks to destroy the nuclear family, religious faith, local government, and other traditional bulwarks against the absolute state.
Author: Chandra Mukerji Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520068933 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 514
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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.
Author: Kembrew McLeod Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers ISBN: Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 304
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Owning Culture demonstrates how intellectual property law has expanded to allow for private ownership of a remarkable array of things, from the patenting of human genes linked to breast cancer to the trademarking of the phrases «home style» and «freedom of ownership.» This book examines diverse areas of contemporary life affected by intellectual property law, including sampling practices in hip-hop music, the appropriation of Third World indigenous knowledge about the medical uses of plants, the effects of seed patenting on farming, and the impact of copyright law on folk music-making. By placing under scrutiny the individualistic, Western conception of the «author» that grounds intellectual property law, Kembrew McLeod shows how borrowing practices have been - and continue to be - central to cultural production. Additionally, this book highlights how intellectual property law facilitates the privatization of culture and the transfer of power into the hands of wealthy individuals and corporations. Clearly written, thoughtful, and thought provoking, Owning Culture provides an innovative approach to the study of culture and law.
Author: Ozgen, Ozlen Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1522584927 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 454
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The mass production and diversification of media have accelerated the development of popular culture. This has started a new trend in consumerism of desiring new consumption objects and devaluing those consumption objects once acquired, thus creating a constant demand for new items. Pop culture now canalizes consumerism both with advertising and the marketing of consumerist lifestyles, which are disseminated in the mass media. The Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age discusses interdisciplinary perspectives on media influence and consumer impacts in a globalizing world due to modern communication technology. Featuring research on topics such as consumer culture, communication ethics, and social media, this book is ideally designed for managers, marketers, researchers, academicians, and students.
Author: Michael Asimow Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9780820458151 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 308
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This book explores the interface between law and popular culture, two subjects of enormous current importance and influence. Exploring how they affect each other, each chapter discusses a legally themed film or television show, such as Philadelphia or Dead Man Walking, and treats it as both a cultural and a legal text, illustrating how popular culture both constructs our perceptions of law, and changes the way that players in the legal system behave. Written without theoretical jargon, Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book is intended for use in undergraduate or graduate courses and can be taught by anyone who enjoys pop culture and is interested in law.
Author: William P Huddy
Author: William P Huddy
Author: Andrew Ross
Author: Daniel Horowitz
Author: John Storey
Author: Paul A. Cantor
Author: Chandra Mukerji
Author: Kembrew McLeod
Author: Ozgen, Ozlen
Author: Michael Asimow