Popular Imagination

Author : Henry Jenkins,Gabriel Peters-Lazaro,Sangita Shresthova
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479891252

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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination by Henry Jenkins,Gabriel Peters-Lazaro,Sangita Shresthova Pdf

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions; it also requires the ability to see oneself as a civic agent capable of making change, as a participant in a larger democratic culture. Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination represents a call for greater clarity about what we’re fighting for—not just what we’re fighting against. Across more than thirty examples from social movements around the world, this casebook proposes “civic imagination” as a framework that can help us identify, support, and practice new kinds of communal participation. As the contributors demonstrate, young people, in particular, are turning to popular culture—from Beyoncé to Bollywood, from Smokey Bear to Hamilton, from comic books to VR—for the vernacular through which they can express their discontent with current conditions. A young activist uses YouTube to speak back against J. K. Rowling in the voice of Cho Chang in order to challenge the superficial representation of Asian Americans in children’s literature. Murals in Los Angeles are employed to construct a mythic imagination of Chicano identity. Twitter users have turned to #BlackGirlMagic to highlight the black radical imagination and construct new visions of female empowerment. In each instance, activists demonstrate what happens when the creative energies of fans are infused with deep political commitment, mobilizing new visions of what a better democracy might look like.

Author : Markéta Kulhánková,Przemyslaw Marciniak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755607297

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Byzantium in the Popular Imagination by Markéta Kulhánková,Przemyslaw Marciniak Pdf

What is the contemporary cultural legacy of Byzantium or The Eastern Roman Empire? This book explores the varied reception history of the Byzantine Empire across a range of cultural production. Split into four sections: the origins of 'Byzantomania' in France, modern media, literature, and politics, it provides case studies which show the numerous ways in which the empire's legacy can be felt today. Covering television, video games and contemporary political discourse, contributors also consider a wide range of national and geographical perspectives including Russian, Turkish, Polish, Greek and Hungarian. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of the reception and cultural history of the Byzantine Empire.

Author : Paul B. Sturtevant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781786723574

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The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination by Paul B. Sturtevant Pdf

It is often assumed that those outside of academia know very little about the Middle Ages. But the truth is not so simple. Non-specialists in fact learn a great deal from the myriad medievalisms - post-medieval imaginings of the medieval world - that pervade our everyday culture. These, like Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones, offer compelling, if not necessarily accurate, visions of the medieval world. And more, they have an impact on the popular imagination, particularly since there are new medievalisms constantly being developed, synthesised and remade. But what does the public really know? How do the conflicting medievalisms they consume contribute to their knowledge? And why is this important? In this book, the first evidence-based exploration of the wider public's understanding of the Middle Ages, Paul B. Sturtevant adapts sociological methods to answer these important questions. Based on extensive focus groups, the book details the ways - both formal and informal - that people learn about the medieval past and the many other ways that this informs, and even distorts, our present. In the process, Sturtevant also sheds light, in more general terms, onto the ways non-specialists learn about the past, and why understanding this is so important. The Middle Ages in Popular Imagination will be of interest to anyone working on medieval studies, medievalism, memory studies, medieval film studies, informal learning or public history.

Author : Billie Melman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1988-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349190997

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Women And The Popular Imagination In The Twenties by Billie Melman Pdf

Author : Nicky van Es,Stijn Reijnders,Leonieke Bolderman,Abby Waysdorf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000223873

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Locating Imagination in Popular Culture by Nicky van Es,Stijn Reijnders,Leonieke Bolderman,Abby Waysdorf Pdf

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which people’s favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism. This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan- and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies and cultural sociology.

Author : James Irvine Cairns,Alan Sears
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442605282

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The Democratic Imagination by James Irvine Cairns,Alan Sears Pdf

The Democratic Imagination examines different conceptions of democracy, exploring tensions that emerge in key moments and debates in the history of democracy, from Ancient Greece to the French Revolution to contemporary Egypt.

Author : Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813546222

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Second Star to the Right by Lester D. Friedman,Allison B. Kavey Pdf

Over a century after its first stage performance, Peter Pan has become deeply embedded in Western popular culture, as an enduring part of childhood memories, in every part of popular media, and in commercial enterprises. Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children's book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.

Author : Juliette Wells
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441111166

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Everybody's Jane by Juliette Wells Pdf

The first book to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels and life.The voices of everyday readers emerge from both published and unpublished sources, including interviews conducted with literary tourists and archival research into the founding of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the exceptional Austen collection of Alberta Hirshheimer Burke of Baltimore.Additional topics include new Austen portraits; portrayals of Austen, and of Austen fans, in film and fiction; and hybrid works that infuse Austen's writings with horror, erotica, or explicit Christianity.Everybody's Jane will appeal to all those who care about Austen and will change how we think about the importance of literature and reading today.

Author : Karl Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107002005

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The Magical Imagination by Karl Bell Pdf

Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.

Author : Karen J. Renner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137599636

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Evil Children in the Popular Imagination by Karen J. Renner Pdf

Focusing on narratives with supernatural components, Karen J. Renner argues that the recent proliferation of stories about evil children demonstrates not a declining faith in the innocence of childhood but a desire to preserve its purity. From novels to music videos, photography to video games, the evil child haunts a range of texts and comes in a variety of forms, including changelings, ferals, and monstrous newborns. In this book, Renner illustrates how each subtype offers a different explanation for the problem of the “evil” child and adapts to changing historical circumstances and ideologies.

Author : Steve Glassman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124199188

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Florida in the Popular Imagination by Steve Glassman Pdf

"Critical discussion of popular culture in Florida, which began drawing winter visitors before the Civil War (now boasts a hundred million+ visitors annually). These essays explore many facets of Florida's culture: Mickey; Shamu; early tourist sites; Key West and its favorite son Ernest Hemingway; and an overview of several iconic Florida institutions (Daytona 500, Spring Break)"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Janice M. Alberghene,Beverly Lyon Clark
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0815320493

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Little Women and the Feminist Imagination by Janice M. Alberghene,Beverly Lyon Clark Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110693782

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Imagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time by Albrecht Classen Pdf

The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.

Author : Eva Bueno,Terry Caesar
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822990581

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Imagination Beyond Nation by Eva Bueno,Terry Caesar Pdf

An exploration in verse of rites of passage within the Cuban-American culture shows how a combined nostalgia for a lost world and a daily confrontation with American culture leads to self-awareness

Author : Lee Clarke
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226108605

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Worst Cases by Lee Clarke Pdf

Al Qaeda detonates a nuclear weapon in Times Square during rush hour, wiping out half of Manhattan and killing 500,000 people. A virulent strain of bird flu jumps to humans in Thailand, sweeps across Asia, and claims more than fifty million lives. A single freight car of chlorine derails on the outskirts of Los Angeles, spilling its contents and killing seven million. An asteroid ten kilometers wide slams into the Atlantic Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that renders life on the planet as we know it extinct. We consider the few who live in fear of such scenarios to be alarmist or even paranoid. But Worst Cases shows that such individuals—like Cassandra foreseeing the fall of Troy—are more reasonable and prescient than you might think. In this book, Lee Clarke surveys the full range of possible catastrophes that animate and dominate the popular imagination, from toxic spills and terrorism to plane crashes and pandemics. Along the way, he explores how the ubiquity of worst cases in everyday life has rendered them ordinary and mundane. Fear and dread, Clarke argues, have actually become too rare: only when the public has more substantial information and more credible warnings will it take worst cases as seriously as it should. A timely and necessary look into how we think about the unthinkable, Worst Cases will be must reading for anyone attuned to our current climate of threat and fear.