Trash Culture

Author : Gillian Pye
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Integrated solid waste management
ISBN : 3039115537

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In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, concerns about the environment and the future of global capitalism have dominated political and social agendas worldwide. The culture of excess underlying these concerns is particularly evident in the issue of trash, which for environmentalists has been a negative category, heavily implicated in the destruction of the natural world. However, in the context of the arts, trash has long been seen as a rich aesthetic resource and, more recently, particularly under the influence of anthropology and archaeology, it has been explored as a form of material culture that articulates modes of identity construction. In the context of such shifting, often ambiguous attitudes to the obsolete and the discarded, this book offers a timely insight into their significance for representations of social and personal identity. The essays in the book build on scholarship in cultural theory, sociology and anthropology that suggests that social and personal experience is embedded in material culture, but they also focus on the significance of trash as an aesthetic resource. The volume illuminates some of the ways in which our relationship to trash has influenced and is influenced by cultural products including art, architecture, literature, film and museum culture.

Author : Richard Keller Simon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520924428

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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 : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Kevin Glynn
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822325691

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Tabloid Culture by Kevin Glynn Pdf

An examination of the rise of tabloid television and the political, cultural, and technological changes that have enabled its success.

Author : MEHITA IQANI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1438480180

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Garbage in Popular Culture by MEHITA IQANI Pdf

Explores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global society.

Author : David Laguardia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 143634834X

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Trash Culture by David Laguardia Pdf

Author : Annalee Newitz,Matt Wray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135245689

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White Trash by Annalee Newitz,Matt Wray Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Nancy Isenberg
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101608487

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White Trash by Nancy Isenberg Pdf

The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

Author : Maite Zubiaurre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 0826522289

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Talking Trash by Maite Zubiaurre Pdf

Provocative writing about the stunning variety of contemporary litter, its meanings, and its artistic possibilities, profusely illustrated with 163 color images

Author : Matt Hills
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Celebrities in mass media
ISBN : 0415240247

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Fan Cultures by Matt Hills Pdf

Fans are one of the most widely-studied groups of media consumers. Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matthew Hills discusses how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory.

Author : Stanley D Brunn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135756017

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11 September and its Aftermath by Stanley D Brunn Pdf

In this book, an international team of political geographers and political scientists examine the impact of 11 September 2001 on foreign policies and international relations. The authors draw from a variety of different perspectives to discuss America and emerging world orders, terrorism, environmental security, civil society and the visual and print media.

Author : Andy Mulligan
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375898433

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Trash by Andy Mulligan Pdf

In an unnamed Third World country, in the not-so-distant future, three “dumpsite boys” make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One unlucky-lucky day, Raphael finds something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that he decides to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. That decision brings with it terrifying consequences, and soon the dumpsite boys must use all of their cunning and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers. It’s up to Raphael, Gardo, and Rat—boys who have no education, no parents, no homes, and no money—to solve the mystery and right a terrible wrong. Andy Mulligan has written a powerful story about unthinkable poverty—and the kind of hope and determination that can transcend it. With twists and turns, unrelenting action, and deep, raw emotion, Trash is a heart-pounding, breath-holding novel.

Author : Samuel Amago
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813945934

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Basura by Samuel Amago Pdf

Basura considers the efforts of artists, writers, and designers for whom waste is a means to withstand cultural erasure.

Author : Stacey Michele Olster
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Guy Barefoot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231542692

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Trash Cinema by Guy Barefoot Pdf

This volume explores the lower reaches of cinema and its paradoxical appeal. It looks at films from the B-movies of the 1930s to the mockbusters of today, and from the New York underground to the genre variations of Turkey's Yesilçam studios (and their YouTube afterlife). Critically examining the reasons for studying, denigrating, or celebrating the detritus of film history, it also considers the place of a trash aesthetic within and beyond 1960s American avant-garde and looks at the cult of trash in the fanzines of the 1980s. It draws on debates about cult, paracinema, and camp, arguing that trash cinema exists in relation to these but brings with it a particular history that includes the ordinary as well as the strange. Trash Cinema places these debates, and the strand of self-proclaimed low culture that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, within a historical and international perspective. It focuses on American cinema history but addresses Eurotrash reception as well as the related field of garbology, examining trash cinema as a distinct but fluid category.