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The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture
- Title
- The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / Henry Jenkins.
- Author
- Jenkins, Henry, 1958-
- Publication
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
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- Description
- vi, 285 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Popular culture > United States
- Mass media > Social aspects > United States
- Aesthetics > Social aspects > United States
- Affect (Psychology) > United States
- United States > Social conditions > 1945-
- Emotions > Social aspects > United States
- Popular culture > United States > Psychological aspects
- United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945
- Mass media > United States > Psychological aspects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.
- Contents
- Games, the new lively art -- Monstrous beauty and mutant aesthetics : rethinking Matthew Barney's relation to the horror genre -- Death-defying heroes -- Never trust a snake : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama -- Exploiting feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island -- "You don't say that in English!" : the scandal of Lupe Velez -- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee -- "Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces -- "Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-1822
- ISBN
- 0814742823 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0814742831 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780814742822 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780814742839 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006022413
- OCLC
- 70673153
- Author
- Jenkins, Henry, 1958-
- Title
- The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / Henry Jenkins.
- Imprint
- New York : New York University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-1822