The wow climax [electronic resource] : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / Henry Jenkins.

By: Jenkins, Henry, 1958-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2007Description: vi, 285 p. : illSubject(s): Popular culture -- United States | Popular culture -- United States -- Psychological aspects | Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States | Affect (Psychology) -- United States | Aesthetics -- Social aspects -- United States | Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States | Mass media -- United States -- Psychological aspects | United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945 | United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 302.230973 LOC classification: E169.12 | .J46 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Games, the new lively art -- Monstrous beauty and mutant aesthetics : rethinking Matthew Barney's relation to the horror genre -- Death-defying heroes -- Never trust a snake : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama -- Exploiting feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island -- "You don't say that in English!" : the scandal of Lupe Velez -- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee -- "Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces -- "Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.

Games, the new lively art -- Monstrous beauty and mutant aesthetics : rethinking Matthew Barney's relation to the horror genre -- Death-defying heroes -- Never trust a snake : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama -- Exploiting feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island -- "You don't say that in English!" : the scandal of Lupe Velez -- "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee -- "Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces -- "Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie.

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