Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
Title Rethinking Popular Culture and Media PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher Rethinking Schools
Pages 354
Release 2011
Genre Computers
ISBN 094296148X

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A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.




Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
Title Rethinking Popular Culture and Media PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher Rethinking Schools
Pages 344
Release 2016
Genre Education
ISBN 9780942961638

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Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the "popular" is political. Whether it's Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students' lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials "teach" children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action




Rethinking Popular Culture

Rethinking Popular Culture
Title Rethinking Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Chandra Mukerji
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 514
Release 1991-07-09
Genre Art
ISBN 9780520068933

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Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture.




Rethinking Global Security

Rethinking Global Security
Title Rethinking Global Security PDF eBook
Author Andrew Martin
Publisher Rutgers University Press
Pages 262
Release 2006
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0813538300

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In Rethinking Global Security, Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.




Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Title Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture PDF eBook
Author Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher SAGE
Pages 348
Release 1997-01-31
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780761901716

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This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.




Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Title Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture PDF eBook
Author Carlos Rojas
Publisher Routledge
Pages 344
Release 2008-12-08
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1134032234

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Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another. An international line up of contributors present detailed analyses of literary works and other cultural products that have previously been neglected by scholars, while also examining more familiar authors and works from provocative new angles.The essays include investigations into the cultural industries and contexts that produce the canonical and popular, the position of contemporary popular works at the interstices of nostalgia and amnesia, and also the ways in which cultural texts are inflected with gendered and erotic sensibilities while at the same time also functioning as objects of desire in its own right. As the only volume of its kind to cover the entire span of the 20th century, and also to consider the interplay of popular and canonical literature in modern China with comparable rigor, Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture is an important resource for students and scholars of Chinese literature and culture.




Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture
Title Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture PDF eBook
Author William Irwin
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 340
Release 2011-11-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1444390988

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What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix , X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself Supplementary website available with teaching guides, sample materials and links to further resources at www.pop-philosophy.org