The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
About the Book Series
Dedicated to a renewed engagement with culture, this series fosters critical, contextual analyses and cross-disciplinary examinations of popular culture as a site of cultural politics. It welcomes theoretically grounded and critically engaged accounts of the politics of contemporary popular culture and the popular dimensions of cultural politics. Without being aligned to a specific theoretical or methodological approach, The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture publishes monographs and edited collections that promote dialogues on central subjects, such as representation, identity, power, consumption, citizenship, desire and difference. Offering approachable and insightful analyses that complicate race, class, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability and nation across various sites of production and consumption, including film, television, music, advertising, sport, fashion, food, youth, subcultures and new media, The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture welcomes work that explores the importance of text, context and subtext as these relate to the ways in which popular culture works alongside hegemony.
Contemporary European Cinema: Crisis Narratives and Narratives in Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Betty Kaklamanidou, Ana Corbalán
June 30, 2020
This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the more recent refugee and humanitarian crisis. With the recession having become a popular theme of economic, demographic, and ...
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy: Beyond boy wizards and kick-ass chicks
1st Edition
By Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart
June 30, 2020
This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and ...
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television: Animation and the American Joke
1st Edition
By Silas Kaine Ezell
June 30, 2020
This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the ...
Post-9/11 Heartland Horror: Rural horror films in an era of urban terrorism
1st Edition
By Victoria McCollum
June 30, 2020
This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved away from the characteristic industrial and urban settings of apocalyptic horror, to return to American heartland horror. Examining the revival of ...
Wasted: Performing Addiction in America
1st Edition
By Heath A. Diehl
June 30, 2020
Departing from the scholarly treatment of addiction as a form of rhetoric or discursive formation, Wasted: Performing Addiction in America focuses on the material, lived experience of addiction and the ways in which it is shaped by a ’metaphor of waste’, from the manner in which people describe the...
HBO’s Original Voices: Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By Victoria McCollum, Giuliana Monteverde
October 17, 2019
This book constitutes the first major exploration of HBO's current programming, examined in the context of the transformation of American television and global society. With studies of well-known shows such as Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Looking, Silicon Valley, The Comeback, The Leftovers, ...
A Perfect Union?: Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage
1st Edition
By Cory Albertson
June 07, 2019
On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage "is so ordered" across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U.S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened ...
Belligerent Broadcasting: Synthetic argument in broadcast talk
1st Edition
By Michael Higgins, Angela Smith
January 31, 2019
Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account for the fact that broadcasting has become a sphere of anger, humiliation, anger, dispute and upset? And to what extent does belligerence in ...
Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity
1st Edition
Edited
By David Berry
October 18, 2018
In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of ‘austerity economics’ across many nations. Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity examines how austerity has impacted upon cultural politics in relation to understanding how established power...
Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate
1st Edition
By Michael Goodrum
June 16, 2017
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced. Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, the author combines analyses of visual and textual ...
Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television
1st Edition
By Michael Mario Albrecht
March 29, 2017
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the ...
The American Imperial Gothic: Popular Culture, Empire, Violence
1st Edition
By Johan Höglund
September 06, 2016
The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists...