Garbage In Popular Culture

Author : Mehita Iqani
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438480190

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Garbage in Popular Culture by Mehita Iqani Pdf

Garbage in Popular Culture is the first book to explicitly link media discourse, consumer culture and the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society. It makes an original contribution to the areas of consumer culture studies, visual culture, media and communications, and cultural theory through a critical analysis of the ways in which waste and garbage are visually communicated in the public realm. Mehita Iqani examines three key themes evident in the global representation of garbage: questions of agency and activism, cultures of hedonism and luxury, and anxieties about devastation and its affect. Each theme is explored through a number of case studies, including zero-waste recycling campaigns communicated on Instagram, to fine art made with waste, popular entertainment festivals, tropical beach tourism, and films about oil spills and plastic waste in oceans. Iqani argues that we need a new vocabulary to think about what it means to be human in this new age of consumption-produced waste, and reflects on what rubbish allows us to learn about our relationship with the natural world.

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0745312020

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Trash Aesthetics by Deborah Cartmell Pdf

Patterns of production and consumption are foundation stones of contemporary media studies. Trash Aesthetics takes the audience as its starting point in a collection which explores aspects of audience response, interaction and manipulation.

Author : Richard Keller Simon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520924428

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Trash Culture by Richard Keller Simon Pdf

Seinfeld as a contemporary adaptation of Etherege's Restoration comedy of manners The Man of Mode? Friends as a reworking of Shakespeare's romantic comedy Much Ado About Nothing? Star Wars as an adaptation of Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene? The popular culture that surrounds us in our daily lives bears a striking similarity to some of the great works of literature of the past. In television, movies, magazines, and advertisements we are exposed to many of the same stories as those critics who study the great books of Western literature, but we have simply been encouraged to look at those stories differently. In Trash Culture, Richard K. Simon examines the ways in which the great literature and cultural work of the past has been rewritten for today's consumer society, with supermarket tabloids such as The National Enquirer and celebrity gossip magazines like People serving as contemporary versions of the great dramatic tragedies of the past. Today's advertising repeats the tale of the Golden Age, but inverts the value system of a classic utopia; the shopping mall combines bits and pieces of the great garden styles of Western history, and now adds consumer goods; Playboy magazine revises Castiglione's Renaissance courtesy book, The Book of the Courtier; and Cosmopolitan magazine revises the women's coming-of-age novels of Jane Austen, Gustave Flaubert, and Edith Wharton. Trash Culture concludes that the great books are alive and well, but simply hidden from the critics. It argues for the linking of high and low for the study and appreciation of each form of literature, and the importance of teaching popular culture alongside books of the great tradition in order to understand the critical context in which the books appear.

Author : Elia Geoffrey Kantaris,Rory O'Bryen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781855662643

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Latin American Popular Culture by Elia Geoffrey Kantaris,Rory O'Bryen Pdf

A wide range of essays which provide new conceptualizations of popular culture while linking it to both its long history and some of its most exciting contemporary forms.

Author : Stacey Michele Olster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820324841

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The Trash Phenomenon by Stacey Michele Olster Pdf

The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it as a subversive "people's history," Stacey Olster explores how literature recycles American popular culture so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. Olster discusses the works of three authors who collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose works explore the imperial sway of American popular culture on their nation's value systems: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, and race: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O. J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.

Author : Lindsay Steenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136177361

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Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture by Lindsay Steenberg Pdf

This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured the collective imagination: crime films and television programs. In contemporary screen culture, crime is increasingly framed as an area of scientific inquiry and, even more frequently, as an area of concern for female experts. One of the central concerns of this book is the gendered nature of expert scientific knowledge, as embodied by the ubiquitous character of the female investigator. Steenberg argues that our fascination with the forensic depends on our equal fascination with (and suspicion of) women's bodies—with the bodies of the women investigating and with the bodies of the mostly female victims under investigation.

Author : Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781412988193

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Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste by Carl A. Zimring,William L. Rathje Pdf

These volumes convey what daily life is like in the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Entries will aid readers in understanding the importance of cultural sociology, to appreciate the effects of cultural forces around the world.

Author : Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119140344

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Popular Culture by Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien Pdf

Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them. Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic structures that affect media, the politics of pop culture, the role of consumers, subcultures and countercultures, and the construction of social reality Examines the ways in which individuals and societies act as consumers and agents of popular culture

Author : John Scanlan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1861892225

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On Garbage by John Scanlan Pdf

On Garbage is the first book to examine the detritus of Western culture in full range—not only material waste and ruin, but also residual or "broken" knowledge and the lingering remainders of cultural thought systems.

Author : Kristine Gritter,Kathryn Schoon-Tanis,Matthew Althoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317821007

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Can Pop Culture and Shakespeare Exist in the Same Classroom? by Kristine Gritter,Kathryn Schoon-Tanis,Matthew Althoff Pdf

Expecting students to jump right into a rigorous literature discussion is not always realistic. Students need scaffolding so that they will be more engaged and motivated to read the text and think about it on a deeper level. This book shows English language arts teachers a very effective way to scaffold—by tapping into students’ interest in pop culture. You’ll learn how to use your students’ ability to analyze pop culture and transfer that into helping them analyze and connect to a text. Special Features: Tools you can use immediately, such as discussion prompts, rubrics, and planning sheets Examples of real student literature discussions using pop culture Reflection questions to help you apply the book’s ideas to your own classroom Connections to the Common Core State Standards for reading, speaking, and listening Throughout the book, you’ll discover practical ways that pop culture and classic texts can indeed coexist in your classroom. As your students bridge their academic and social lives, they’ll become more insightful about great literature--and the world around them.

Author : David Laguardia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143634834X

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Trash Culture by David Laguardia Pdf

Author : Steven L. Hamelman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0820325872

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But is it Garbage? by Steven L. Hamelman Pdf

Trash has been blowing across the rock'n'roll landscape since the first amplified guitar riff tore through American mass culture. Throwaway tunes, wasted fans, crappy reviews, junk bins of remaindered albums: much of rock's quintessence is handily conveyed in terms of disposability and impermanence. Steven L. Hamelman sums up these rubbishy affinities as rock's "trash trope." Trash is an obvious physical presence on the rock scene -- think of Woodstock's littered pastures or the many hotel rooms redecorated by the Who. More intriguingly, Hamelman says, trash is the catalyst for a powerful mode of rock composition and criticism. It is, for instance, both cause and effect when performers like the Ramones or Beck at once critique junk culture and revel in it. But Is It Garbage? spills over with challenging insights into how rock's creators, critics, and consumers transform, and are transformed by, trash as a fact and a concept. In the music's preoccupation with its own trashiness readers will perceive a wellspring of rock innovation and inspiration -- one largely overlooked and little understood until now.

Author : Kenneth Aman,Cristian Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000307665

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Popular Culture In Chile by Kenneth Aman,Cristian Parker Pdf

First published in 1991. An implicit thesis of this volume is that popular culture in Chile is more than the total of many individual biographies. It requires a new analysis of society as a whole and of social change. Too often, political scientists and other social analysts have seen social change as proceeding from the top down. One can interpre

Author : Stacey Michele Olster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082032521X

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The Trash Phenomenon by Stacey Michele Olster Pdf

The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it as a subversive "people's history," Stacey Olster explores how literature recycles American popular culture so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. Olster discusses the works of three authors who collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's American Chronicle series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose works explore the imperial sway of American popular culture on their nation's value systems: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, and race: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O. J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.

Author : Lawrence Grossberg,Della Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134719013

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Cultural Studies 11.2 by Lawrence Grossberg,Della Pollock Pdf

Papers featured in this issue offer an in-depth examination of the interaction of ethnicity, identity, and 'multiculturalism' with contemporary culture.