Impure play
Subtitle: sacredness, transgression, and the tragic in popular culture
By: Alexander Riley
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780739129319
Subjects: Culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.
Table of contents: title: Serious play, sacred transgression, and popular tragedy; title: "Too many discos and too many lovers" : the scandal of Michel Houellebecq's literary sociology; title: The rebirth of tragedy out of the spirits of gangsta rap and death/black metal; title: Scandal and impurity in sports heroism; title: God games : death, violence, and the sacred in video game play; title: "A new kind of fear" : the online desequestration of suicide and death; title: On cultural sociology as a way of life.