The Wow Climax : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture.

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Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video). Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts--a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vau...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Temas:
Since 1933
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.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique.
Médias > Aspect social > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Aesthetics > Social aspects
Affect (Psychology)
Emotions > Social aspects
Mass media > Psychological aspects
Mass media > Social aspects
Popular culture
Popular culture > Psychological aspects
Social conditions
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1933-1945.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1945-
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Wow!; Part I: The Lively Arts; 1 Games, the New Lively Art; 2 Monstrous Beauty and Mutant Aesthetics: Rethinking Matthew Barney's Relation to the Horror Genre; Part II: The Immediate Experience; 3 Death-Defying Heroes; 4 Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama; 5 Exploiting Feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island; 6 "You Don't Say That in English!":The Scandal of Lupe Velez; Part III: Welcome to the Playground; 7 "Going Bonkers!": Children, Play, and Pee-Wee; 8 "Complete Freedom of Movement":Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces.
  • 9 "Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty": The Sentimental Value of LassieNotes; Index; About the Author.

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