Subversive Pleasures

Author : Johnson Cheu
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476667331

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The Films of Robin Williams by Johnson Cheu Pdf

From his first appearance as Mork from Ork on the 1970s sitcom Happy Days, Robin Williams was heralded as a singular talent. In the pre-cable television era, he was one of the few performers to successfully transition from TV to film. An Oscar-winning actor and preternaturally quick-witted comedian, Williams became a cultural icon, leaving behind a large and varied body of work when he unexpectedly took his own life in 2014. This collection of new essays brings together a range of perspectives on Williams and his oeuvre, including beloved hits like Mrs. Doubtfire, Good Morning, Vietnam, Good Will Hunting, The Fisher King, Dead Poets Society and Aladdin. Contributors explore his earlier work (Mork and Mindy, The World According to Garp) and his political and satirical films (Moscow on the Hudson, Toys). Williams's darker, less well-known fare, such as Being Human, One Hour Photo, Final Cut and Boulevard, is also covered. Williams's artistry has become woven into the fabric of our global media culture.

Author : Robert Stam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015014753837

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Subversive Pleasures by Robert Stam Pdf

"Creatively extends Bakhtin's ideas into such hitherto-neglected spheres as the mass media and film theory ... An imaginative and productive addition to the burgeoning literature on Mikhail Bakhtin."--Theory, Culture, and Society

Author : Robert Stam
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118288931

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Keywords in Subversive Film / Media Aesthetics by Robert Stam Pdf

Keywords offers a conversational journey through the overlying terrains of politically engaged art and artistically engaged politics, combining a major statement on subversive aesthetics, a survey of radical film strategies, and a lexicon of over a thousand terms and concepts. No other book combines an ambitious essay on radical politics and aesthetics in film with a lexicon of terms and ideas, many of which are new and innovative Creates and illustrates over a thousand terms and concept, drawing its examples from a wide range of media Provides a broad timespan, covering the very ancient (Ramayana, Aristotle) to the most current (digital mashups, memes) Uniquely discusses the areas of film, television and the internet within one book No other book combines an ambitious essay on radical politics and aesthetics in film with a lexicon of terms and ideas, many of which are new and innovative

Author : Neil Nehring
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781506339207

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Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism by Neil Nehring Pdf

The migration of cynical academic ideas about postmodernism into music journalism are traced in this book. The result of this migration is a widespread fatalism over the ability of the music industry to absorb any expression of defiance in popular music. The book synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and theory from romanticism through postmodernism; alternative music such as feminist punk and grunge; political economy, which has fueled the obsession with commercial incorporation; and subcultural sociology.

Author : Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-18
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780740785085

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The Book of Idle Pleasures by Tom Hodgkinson,Dan Kieran Pdf

The Art of Doing Nothing meets The Dangerous Book for Boys in this charming celebration of simple delights. In The Book of Idle Pleasures, the United Kingdom's expert Idlers Tom Hodgkinson and Dan Kieran stand up for the simple pleasures in life . . . by lying down for a nap. With its tongue firmly in its cheek, The Book of Idle Pleasures renounces our world of ever-growing consumer overload in favor of the timelessly true adage that the best things in life really are free. Clever and sometimes all too true in its reflections on 100 simple pastimes--among them slouching, skipping stones, staring out the window, doodling, and, natch, taking a nap--The Book of Idle Pleasures is a charming celebration of simple pleasures for the sake of pleasure itself, making it a soothing antidote for our nonstop culture and an ideal restorative against the costly confusion of our daily existence.

Author : Ethan Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136839801

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Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture by Ethan Thompson Pdf

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current events, and popular culture through comedy that is simultaneously critical, commercial, and funny. Along with the rapid growth of television in the 1950s, an explosion of satire and parody took place across a wide field of American culture—in magazines, comic books, film, comedy albums, and on television itself. Taken together, these case studies don’t just analyze and theorize the production and consumption of parody and television, but force us to revisit and revise our notions of postwar "consensus" culture as well.

Author : Nick Lacey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403990464

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Media, Institutions and Audiences by Nick Lacey Pdf

Media Institutions and Audiences completes Nick Lacey's trilogy of self-standing texts that give an in-depth introduction to the key concepts of Media Studies at an advanced and university level. The book delivers a range of theories and contemporary case studies in its coverage of media business and the influence of regulation and censorship. The issues surrounding the growing commodification of media texts, and the increasing influence of marketing and public relations, are considered. The major approaches to understanding audiences are also investigated.

Author : Purdy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004656413

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Literature and the Body by Purdy Pdf

Author : Mia Mask
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780252034220

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Divas on Screen by Mia Mask Pdf

This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, and Halle Berry. Interpreting each woman's celebrity as predicated on a brand of charismatic authority, Mia Mask shows how these female stars have ultimately complicated the conventional discursive practices through which blackness and womanhood have been represented in commercial cinema, independent film, and network television. Mask examines the function of these stars in seminal yet underanalyzed films. She considers Dandridge's status as a sexual commodity in films such as Tamango, revealing the contradictory discourses regarding race and sexuality in segregation-era American culture. Grier's feminist-camp performances in sexploitation pictures Women in Cages and The Big Doll House and her subsequent blaxploitation vehicles Coffy and Foxy Brown highlight a similar tension between representing African American women as both objectified stereotypes and powerful, self-defining icons. Mask reads Goldberg's transforming habits in Sister Act and The Associate as representative of her unruly comedic routines, while Winfrey's daily television performance as self-made, self-help guru echoes Horatio Alger narratives of success. Finally, Mask analyzes Berry's meteoric success by acknowledging the ways in which Dandridge's career made Berry's possible.

Author : Wimal Dissanayake,Anthony Guneratne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134613243

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Rethinking Third Cinema by Wimal Dissanayake,Anthony Guneratne Pdf

With case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, and with contributors addressing the most challenging questions it poses, this important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations

Author : Jacob Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520961494

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Eco-Sonic Media by Jacob Smith Pdf

The negative environmental effects of media culture are not often acknowledged: the fuel required to keep huge server farms in operation, landfills full of high tech junk, and the extraction of rare minerals for devices reliant on them are just some of the hidden costs of the contemporary mediascape. Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media. By looking at early and neglected forms of sound technology, Jacob Smith seeks to create a revisionist, ecologically aware history of sound media. Delving into the history of pre-electronic media like hand-cranked gramophones, comparatively eco-friendly media artifacts such as the shellac discs that preceded the use of petroleum-based vinyl, early forms of portable technology like divining rods, and even the use of songbirds as domestic music machines, Smith builds a scaffolding of historical case studies to demonstrate how "green media archaeology" can make sound studies vibrate at an ecological frequency while opening the ears of eco-criticism. Throughout this eye-opening and timely book he makes readers more aware of the costs and consequences of their personal media consumption by prompting comparisons with non-digital, non-electronic technologies and by offering different ways in which sound media can become eco-sonic media. In the process, he forges interdisciplinary connections, opens new avenues of research, and poses fresh theoretical questions for scholars and students of media, sound studies, and contemporary environmental history.

Author : Shilpa Dave,LeiLani Nishime,Tasha Oren
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780814719633

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East Main Street by Shilpa Dave,LeiLani Nishime,Tasha Oren Pdf

An interdisciplinary anthology of the rich Asian American influence on U.S. popular culture From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to “faux Asian” fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture. By tracing cross-cultural influences and global cultural trends, the essays in East Main Street bring Asian American studies, in all its interdisciplinary richness, to bear on a broad spectrum of cultural artifacts. Contributors consider topics ranging from early Asian American movie stars to the influences of South Asian iconography on rave culture, and from the marketing of Asian culture through food to the contemporary clamor for transnational Chinese women’s historical fiction. East Main Street hits the shelves in the midst of a boom in Asian American population and cultural production. This book is essential not only for understanding Asian American popular culture but also contemporary U.S. popular culture writ large.

Author : Myra Marx Ferree,Judith Lorber,Beth B. Hess
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761906177

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Revisioning Gender by Myra Marx Ferree,Judith Lorber,Beth B. Hess Pdf

This comprehensive handbook attempts to summarize the state of gender studies not only by examining the crucial research of the past decade, but by encouraging thinking about how the questions central to studying gender have themselves changed. Building on the work started by the contributors to this volume's predecessor (Analyzing Gender, Sage 1987), editors Myra Marx Ferree, Judith Lorber, and Beth B. Hess reflect on the advances of gender scholarship during the past decade with its emphasis on all levels of social structure from the most macro to the most individual. Revisioning Gender is a step toward constructing a new analytical approach for the social sciences, one that calls into question disciplinary boundaries and the specific agendas entailed therein.

Author : Ivone Margulies
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822317230

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Nothing Happens by Ivone Margulies Pdf

Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In Nothing Happens, Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman's work--from Saute ma ville, a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through Jeanne Dielman and Je tu il elle to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman's everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker's work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women's history in the seventies. She then shows how Akerman's "corporeal cinema" is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layerings present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman's minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard's anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman's films as either simply modernist or feminist. An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman's work, Nothing Happens will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.

Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230616820

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Reading Rocky Horror by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock Pdf

The first scholarly collection devoted to The Rocky Horror Picture Show, dissecting the film from diverse perspectives including gender and queer studies, disability studies, cultural studies, genre studies, and film studies.