Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, 285 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780814742839
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9780814742822
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0814742823
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0814742831
Content:
Henry Jenkins at AuthorsGoogle (video). Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic was celebrated by other writers for its vitality, its liveliness, and its playfulness. The Wow Climax follows in the path of this more laudatory tradition, drawing out the range of emotions in popular culture and mapping what we might call an aesthetic of immediacy. It pulls together a s
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index
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Contents; Introduction: Wow!; Part I: The Lively Arts; 1 Games, the New Lively Art; 2 Monstrous Beauty and Mutant Aesthetics: Rethinking Matthew Barney's Relation to the Horror Genre; Part II: The Immediate Experience; 3 Death-Defying Heroes; 4 Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama; 5 Exploiting Feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island; 6 "You Don't Say That in English!":The Scandal of Lupe Velez; Part III: Welcome to the Playground; 7 "Going Bonkers!": Children, Play, and Pee-Wee; 8 "Complete Freedom of Movement":Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces
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9 "Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty": The Sentimental Value of LassieNotes; Index; About the Author
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
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Print version The Wow Climax : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
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