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Spreadable Media - Creating Value And Meaning In A Networked Culture

by Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green e Sam Ford

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 "Spreadable Media" maps fundamental changes taking place in the contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution. This book challenges some of the prevailing frameworks used to describe contemporary media.
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Science Fiction Ecologies - Worldmaking With Butler, Le Guin, And Merril

by Shelley Streeby

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 Explores how feminist science-fiction writers engage with ecological and environmental speculation and memory-work. Science Fiction Ecologies traces how Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Judith Merril—three generations of groundbreaking feminist science fiction writers—used ecological imagination and rigorous memory-work to rethink environments, histories, and possible futures. Shelley Streeby mines their expansive personal archives of letters, journals, notebooks, annotated clippings, and other everyday materials to show how each writer documented environmental news, social movements, colonial and imperial legacies, and the accelerating militarism of the late twentieth century. This archival labor, Streeby argues, was not ancillary but central to their worldmaking: a form of "histofuturist" practice that linked creative speculation to the preservation and reimagining of knowledge. Against a backdrop of shrinking public library budgets, intensifying weapons development, and the rise of privatization politics, Butler, Le Guin, and Merril fought for the survival of libraries and the democratic circulation of ideas. Their activism, along with their contributions to popular science-fiction culture and their public interventions, reveals how they imagined libraries, archives, and other knowledge spaces as living ecologies shaped by power, identity, and access. Through speculative documentary methods, Science Fiction Ecologies illuminates the counter-histories embedded in their papers, tracing how their visions challenged ecologies dominated by state power, white Christian nationalism, violent masculinities, and entrenched class and race inequalities. Streeby ultimately shows how these writers’ intertwined lives and works open new ways of thinking about environments, human survival, and the futures we might yet build.
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Where The Wild Things Were - Boyhood And Permissive Parenting In Postwar America

by Henry Jenkins

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 Explores iconic works from The Cat in the Hat to The Twilight Zone to explain cultural trends in parenting and how we conceptualize childhood The 60s produced a Baby Boom generation that catalyzed the dawn of a new era—the space age, the age of television, the global age, and the beginnings of civil rights. At the same time, a new paradigm for parenting was unfolding that put emphasis on permissiveness, defined by what it permitted - the free and unfettered impulses of children. Others worried that the wildness of children, personified by the characters in Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic children’s book, Where the Wild Things Are, was destructive, disruptive and disrespectful. Where the Wild Things Were centers on the exploding, contentious national conversation about the nature of childhood and parenting in the postwar US emblematized by Dr. Spock’s Baby and Child Care. Renowned scholar Henry Jenkins demonstrates that the language that shaped a growing field of advice literature for parents also informed the period’s fictions—in film, television, comics, children’s books, and elsewhere—produced for and consumed by children. In particular, Jenkins demonstrates, the era’s emblematic child was the boy in the striped shirt: white, male, suburban, middle class, Christian, and above all, American. Weaving together intellectual histories and popular texts, Jenkins shows how boy protagonists became embodiments of permissive child rearing, as well as the social ideals and contradictions that permissiveness entailed. From Peanuts comic strips and TV specials to The Cat in the Hat, Dennis the Menace, and Jonny Quest, the book reveals how childhood and the stories about it became central to Cold War concerns with democracy, citizenship, globalization, the space race, science, race relations, gender, and sexuality. Written by a former boy in a striped shirt, Where the Wild Things Were explores iconic works, from Mary Poppins to Lost in Space, contextualizing them through a critical but respectful engagement with the core animating ideas of the permissive imagination.
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Style - A Queer Cosmology

by Taylor Black

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 Moving back and forth through time, this book sketches American cosmologies cultivated by iconic and subterranean American artists like Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery Oâ€™Connor, Nikki Giovanni, and Bob Dylan. Style is about the possible rather than the probable, singularity over universals, personality instead of identity, the emergent and not the newâ€"the mystery of becoming.
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The Privilege Of Play - A History Of Hobby Games, Race, And Geek Culture

by Aaron Trammell

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 The story of white masculinity in geek culture through a history of hobby gaming. The Privilege of Play contends that in order to understand geek identityâ€™s exclusionary tendencies, we need to know the history of the overwhelmingly white communities of tabletop gaming hobbyists that preceded it.
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Scarred - A Feminist Journey Through Pain

by L. Ayu Saraswati

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 What can we ask of pain? How can we be more creative and courageous in carrying pain in our lives? In this genre-bending work that is equal parts memoir and scholarly criticism, L. Ayu Saraswati provides thought-provoking theories and life-transforming ways to understand pain, specifically in relation to feminism.
Modernity'S Ear - Listening To Race And Gender In World Music

by Roshanak Kheshti

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 Inside the global music industry and the racialized and gendered assumptions we make about what we hear Fearing the rapid disappearance of indigenous cultures, twentieth-century American ethnographers turned to the phonograph to salvage native languages and musical practices. Prominent among these early "songcatchers" were white women of comfortable class standing, similar to the female consumers targeted by the music industry as the gramophone became increasingly present in bourgeois homes. Through these simultaneous movements, listening became constructed as a feminized practice, one that craved exotic sounds and mythologized the ‘other’ that made them. In Modernity’s Ear, Roshanak Kheshti examines the ways in which racialized and gendered sounds became fetishized and, in turn, capitalized on by an emergent American world music industry through the promotion of an economy of desire. Taking a mixed-methods approach that draws on anthropology and sound studies, Kheshti locates sound as both representative and constitutive of culture and power. Through analyses of film, photography, recordings, and radio, as well as ethnographic fieldwork at a San Francisco-based world music company, Kheshti politicizes the feminine in the contemporary world music industry. Deploying critical theory to read the fantasy of the feminized listener and feminized organ of the ear, Modernity’s Ear ultimately explores the importance of pleasure in constituting the listening self.
Looking For Leroy - Illegible Black Masculinities

by Mark Anthony Neal

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 An engaging and provocative analysis of the complex ways in which black masculinity has been read and misread through contemporary American popular culture
From Bombay To Bollywood - The Making Of A Global Media Industry

by Aswin Punathambekar

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 Analyses the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood
Your Ad Here - The Cool Sell Of Guerrilla Marketing

by Michael Serazio

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 Investigates the rise of "guerrilla marketing" as a way of understanding increasingly covert and interactive flows of commercial persuasion.
Race So Different - Performance And Law In Asian America

by Joshua Chambers-Letson

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 Explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic.
Spreadable Media - Creating Value And Meaning In A Networked Culture

by Henry Jenkins, Joshua Green e Sam Ford

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 Provides a clear understanding of how people are spreading ideas and the implications these activities have for business, politics, and everyday life
Media Franchising - Creative License And Collaboration In The Culture Industries

by Derek Johnson

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 The initial success of a single product like X-Men, Star Trek, and Transformers led to a long-term embrace of media franchising. The author examines the corporate culture behind these production practices, as well as the collaborative and creative efforts involved in conceiving, sustaining, and sharing intellectual properties in media work worlds.
Puro Arte - Filipinos On The Stages Of Empire

by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

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 Turns to performance as a way of understanding complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire and colonialism
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A Race So Different - Performance And Law In Asian America

by Joshua Chambers-Letson

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 Explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic.
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Puro Arte - Filipinos On The Stages Of Empire

by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns

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 Turns to performance as a way of understanding complex historical processes of racialization in relation to empire and colonialism
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The Sonic Color Line - Race And The Cultural Politics Of Listening

by Jennifer Lynn Stoever

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Science Fiction Ecologies - Worldmaking With Butler, Le Guin, And Merril

by Shelley Streeby

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Science Fiction Ecologies - Worldmaking With Butler, Le Guin, And Merril

by Shelley Streeby

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Producing Precarity - The Costs Of Making Tv In Poor Places

by Curtis Marez

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Fandom For Us, By Us - The Pleasures And Practices Of Black Audiences

by Alfred L. Martin, Jr.

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Where The Wild Things Were - Boyhood And Permissive Parenting In Postwar America

by Henry Jenkins

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Normporn - Queer Viewers And The Tv That Soothes Us

by Karen Tongson

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Digital Masquerade - Feminist Rights And Queer Media In China

by Jia Tan

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