Media, Margins and Popular Culture [electronic resource] /
Savigny, Heather.editor.
Thorsen, Einar.editor.
Jackson, Daniel.editor.
Alexander, Jenny.editor.
This collection brings together leading research on contemporary and popular culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans five continents, with contributions on topics like gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age.
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures and Tables""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction: Marginalised Voices, Representations and Practices""; ""Part I: Gender and Genre""; ""1 No Small-Talk in Paradise: Why Elysium Fails the Bechdel Test, and Why We Should Care""; ""2 You Play Your Part: Older Women on Screen and in Production""; ""Part II: Sexuality, Artistry and Self-Fashioning""; ""3 Marginally Male, Centre Stage and Spot-Lit: The (Gender) Trouble with Quentin Crisp""; ""4 Registers of Performance: Negotiating the Professional, Personal and Intimate in Online Persona Creation""
""Part V: Disciplinary Boundaries""""11 Tourists, Vandals and Pilgrims: A Study of Participant Responses to the Gromit Unleashed Public Art Trail in Bristol, 2013""; ""12 ?I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere??: The Holmes Franchise at the Centre and the Margins""; ""13 Censorship as Performance: A Case of Singapore Media Production""; ""Part VI: The Three Ages of ?Man? (Youth, Age, Minoritarian Masculinity)""; ""14 ?Shoved Online?: BBC Three, British Television and the Marginalisation of Young Adult Audiences""; ""15 Self-Created Digital Content Sharing in Retirement""
""16 ?It Took a Lot to Admit I Am Male on Here?. Going Where Few Men Dare to Tread: Men on Mumsnet""""Index""
Includes index.
This collection brings together leading research on contemporary and popular culture, focussing on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. It spans five continents, with contributions on topics like gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age.
Communication.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Children's literature.
Social sciences.
Media Studies.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Children's Literature.
Social Sciences, general.
Media and Communication.