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The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture


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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.

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Representing Aboriginal Childhood The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia

Representing Aboriginal Childhood: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting in Australia

1st Edition

By Joanne Faulkner
February 28, 2023

This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, ...

Isn't it Ironic? Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture

Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Kinane
January 09, 2023

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular ...

Reborn of Crisis 9/11 and the Resurgent Superhero

Reborn of Crisis: 9/11 and the Resurgent Superhero

1st Edition

By Annika Hagley, Michael Harrison
April 29, 2022

This book examines the dominant popular culture convention of the superhero, situated within the most significant global event of the last 20 years. Exploring the explosion of the superhero genre post-9/11, it sheds fresh light on the manner in which American society has processed and continues to ...

Crazy Funny Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness

Crazy Funny: Popular Black Satire and The Method of Madness

1st Edition

By Lisa A. Guerrero
June 30, 2021

This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections between suffering from racism and suffering from mental illness. Showing how an understanding of racism as a root cause of mental and emotional ...

AfroSurrealism The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction

AfroSurrealism: The African Diaspora's Surrealist Fiction

1st Edition

By Rochelle Spencer
December 10, 2019

Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi, and Colson Whitehead, AfroSurrealism, the first book-length exploration of AfroSurreal fiction, argues that we have entered a new and exciting era ...

Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Adriana Teodorescu, Michael Hviid Jacobsen
November 28, 2019

With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes ...

HBO’s Original Voices Race, Gender, Sexuality and Power

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, ...

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration: A Wall Rise Up

1st Edition

By Victoria Bryan
August 19, 2019

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration ...

Make America Hate Again Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear

Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear

1st Edition

Edited By Victoria McCollum
June 24, 2019

Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalising on the political and cultural climate in which they are made. This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of ...

A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

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 ...

Convergent Wrestling Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

Convergent Wrestling: Participatory Culture, Transmedia Storytelling, and Intertextuality in the Squared Circle

1st Edition

Edited By CarrieLynn Reinhard, Christopher Olson
March 05, 2019

This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several different genres, including drama, action, comedy, horror, science fiction, and even romance. Professional wrestling’s business practices exist...

Belligerent Broadcasting Synthetic argument in broadcast talk

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 ...

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