The wow climax
Subtitle: tracing the emotional impact of popular culture
By: Henry Jenkins
Publisher: New York University Press; NYU Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: 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-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index
Table of contents: title: Games, the new lively art; title: Monstrous beauty and mutant aesthetics : rethinking Matthew Barney's relation to the horror genre; title: Death-defying heroes; title: Never trust a snake : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama; title: Exploiting feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island; title: "You don't say that in English!" : the scandal of Lupe Velez; title: "Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee; title: "Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces; title: "Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie