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The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics

Author : Ingrid Hotz-Davies,Franziska Bergmann,Georg Vogt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351809511

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The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics by Ingrid Hotz-Davies,Franziska Bergmann,Georg Vogt Pdf

"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to offer an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.

Ryan Murphy's Queer America

Author : Brenda R. Weber,David Greven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000575057

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Ryan Murphy's Queer America by Brenda R. Weber,David Greven Pdf

Ryan Murphy is a self-described "gay boy from Indiana," who has grown up to forge a media empire. With an extraordinary list of credits and successful television shows, movies, and documentaries to his name, Murphy can now boast one of the broadest and most successful careers in Hollywood. Serving as writer, producer, and director, his creative output includes limited-run dramas (such as Feud, Ratched, and Halston), procedural dramas (such as 9-1-1 and 9-1-1 Lonestar), anthology series (such as American Crime Story, American Horror Story, and American Horror Stories), sit-coms (such as The New Normal) and long-running serial narratives (such as Glee, Nip/Tuck, and Pose). Each of these is infused in different ways with a distinctive form of queer energy and erotics, animating their narratives with both campy excess and poignant longing and giving new meaning to the American story. This collection takes up Murphy as auteur and showrunner, considering the gendered and sexual politics of Murphy’s wide body of work. Using an intersectional framework throughout, an impressive list of well-known and emerging scholars engages with Murphy’s diverse output, while also making the case for Murphy’s version of a queer sensibility, a revised notion of queer time, cultural memory, and the contributions his own production company makes to a politics of LGBTQ+ representation and evolving gender identities. This book is suitable for students of Gender and Media, LGBTQ+ Studies, Media Studies, and Communication Studies.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture

Author : Emma Rees
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000627008

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The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and Culture by Emma Rees Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality, and Culture is an intersectional, diverse, and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender, sexuality, and cultural studies. A range of international contributors, including leaders in their field, provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters, the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying, Embodying, Making, Doing, and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity, poetry, video games, menstruation, fatness, disability, sex toys, sex work, BDSM, dating apps, body modifications, and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners across cultural studies, gender studies and sociology.

An Eye for Music

Author : John Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780195367362

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In An Eye for Music, John Richardson navigates key areas of current thought - from music theory to film theory to cultural theory - to explore what it means that the experience of music is now cinematic, spatial, and visual as much as it is auditory.

Music & Camp

Author : Christopher Moore,Philip Purvis
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819577832

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Music & Camp by Christopher Moore,Philip Purvis Pdf

This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book provides new research into camp’s presence, techniques, discourses, and potential meanings across a broad spectrum of musical genres, including: musical theatre, classical music, film music, opera, instrumental music, the Broadway musical, rock, pop, hip-hop, and Christmas carols. This significant contribution to the field of camp studies investigates why and how music has served as an expressive and political vehicle for both the aesthetic characteristics and the receptive modes that have been associated with camp throughout twentieth and twenty-first-century culture.

Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture

Author : Adam Geczy,Vicki Karaminas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317217596

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Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture by Adam Geczy,Vicki Karaminas Pdf

Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have evolved from the postwar era and their relationship to fashion to the present day. As well as demonstrating the role of male icons in contemporary society, this book’s originality also lies in showing the many gender slippages that these icons help to effect or expose. It is by exploring the somewhat inviolate types accorded to contemporary masculinity that we see the very fragility of a stable or rounded male identity.

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

Author : Antje Krause-Wahl,Petra Löffler,Änne Söll
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350192911

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Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture by Antje Krause-Wahl,Petra Löffler,Änne Söll Pdf

Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize. They are a formative element of material culture, promising luxury, social distinction and the hope of limitless experience and excess. Since the early twentieth century the mass production, dissemination and popularization of synthetic materials that produce heretofore-unknown effects of shine have increased. At the same time, shine is subjectified as “glamor” and made into a token of performative self-empowerment. The volume illuminates genealogical as well as systematic relationships between material phenomena of shine and cultural-philosophical concepts of appearance, illusion, distraction and glare in bringing together renowned scholars from various disciplines.

Reclaiming Critical Remix Video

Author : Owen Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351978064

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Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement. Gallagher argues, however, that remix is a fundamentally transformative practice. The assumption that cultural works should be considered a form of private property is called into question in the digital age; thus, he proposes an alternative system to balance the economic interests of cultural producers with the ability of the public to engage with a growing intellectual commons of cultural works. Multimodal analyses of both remixed and non-remixed intertextual work, with a particular focus on examples of critical remix video, fuel the discussion, synthesizing a number of investigative methods including semiotic, rhetorical and ideological analysis.

Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror

Author : Matthew Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315411477

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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror by Matthew Leggatt Pdf

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic force, it currently spreads fear, violence, and retrospection. In exploring contemporary culture, this book touches on the role of architecture to provoke feelings of sublimity, the role of art in the aftermath of destructive events, literature’s establishment of the historical moment as a point of sublime transformation and change, and the place of nostalgia and the returning of past practices in digital culture from gaming to popular cinema.

The Materiality of Love

Author : Anna Malinowska,Michael Gratzke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351856706

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The Materiality of Love by Anna Malinowska,Michael Gratzke Pdf

Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing affection. It focuses on love as a material form and traces connections between feelings and materiality, especially in relation to the changing notion of the material as marked by digital culture, as well as the developments in understanding the nature of non-human affect. It provides insight into how materiality, in its broadest sense, impacts the understanding of the meanings and practices of love today and reversely, how love contributes to the production and transformation of the material world.

Women Do Genre in Film and Television

Author : Mary Harrod,Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315526072

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Women Do Genre in Film and Television by Mary Harrod,Katarzyna Paszkiewicz Pdf

This volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples of filmmakers and creative practitioners within and outside Hollywood as well as women working in non-directing authorial roles remind us that women are in various ways authoring commercially and culturally impactful texts across a range of genres. Put simply, this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers, spanning issues of direction, screenwriting, performance and audience address/reception.

New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature

Author : Sonora Jha,Alka Kurian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317210771

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New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature by Sonora Jha,Alka Kurian Pdf

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.

Geomedia Studies

Author : Karin Fast,André Jansson,Johan Lindell,Linda Ryan Bengtsson,Mekonnen Tesfahuney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315410197

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Geomedia Studies by Karin Fast,André Jansson,Johan Lindell,Linda Ryan Bengtsson,Mekonnen Tesfahuney Pdf

This book introduces and develops the concept of geomedia studies as the name of a particular subfield of communication geography. Despite the accelerating societal relevance of ‘geomedia’ technologies for the production of various spaces, mobilities, and power-relations, and the unquestionable emergence of a vibrant research field that deals with questions pertaining to such topics, the term geomedia studies remains surprisingly unestablished. By addressing imperative questions about the implications of geomedia technologies for organizations, social groups and individuals (e.g. businesses profiting from geo-surveillance, refugees or migrants moving across national borders, or artists claiming their rights to public space) the book also aims to contribute to ongoing academic and societal debates in our increasingly mediatized world.

Kinship and Collective Action

Author : Gero Bauer,Anya Heise-von der Lippe,Nicole Hirschfelder,Katharina Luther
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823302292

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Kinship and Collective Action by Gero Bauer,Anya Heise-von der Lippe,Nicole Hirschfelder,Katharina Luther Pdf

"Make kin, not babies!", Donna Haraway demands in an attempt to offer new and creative ways of thinking what kinship might mean in an age of ecological devastation. At the same time, the emergence of a seemingly new culture of public protest and political opinion have provoked scholars such as Judith Butler to address the contexts and dynamics of public collective action. This volume explores the dynamic relationship between structures of kinship and the (material) conditions under which collective action emerges from a literary and cultural studies perspective. How are kinship and collective action negotiated in literature, the arts, or in specific historical moments, and how does this affect the role of representation? How have conceptualizations of both concepts developed over time, and what can we infer from this for questions of kinship and collective action today?

Camp TV of The 1960s

Author : Isabel Pinedo,W. D. Phillips
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780197650745

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Camp TV of The 1960s by Isabel Pinedo,W. D. Phillips Pdf

Camp TV of the 1960s offers a comprehensive understanding of all of the many forms camp TV took during that critical decade. In reevaluating the history of camp on television, the authors reconsider the infantilized conceptualization of sixties television, which has generally been characterized as the creative and cultural ebb between the 1950s Golden Age of television and the networks' shift to "relevance" in the early 1970s. Encompassing contributions from a broad range of media and television scholars that (re)consider programs like Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, chapters closely examine beloved 1960s American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp, many of which were widely syndicated and left continuing imprints on popular culture. Other chapters consider key TV precursors from the early sixties; British camp television programs such as The Avengers; the use of musical codes to convey camp humor (even on black-and-white sets); the role that the viewing strategies of queer communities played - and continued to play even decades later; and how camp's multivalence allowed for more conservative readings, especially among older audiences, which were critical for the move to "mass camp" throughout American culture by the early seventies. Camp TV of the 1960s is essential reading for students and scholars in television studies and others interested in the history and theory of camp, the 1960s, or popular culture, as well as fans of these well-known but generally understudied television programs.