The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture /
By: Jenkins, Henry
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BookPublisher: New York : New York University Press, c2007.Description: vi, 285 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780814742839Subject(s): 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 aspectsDDC classification: 302.23/0973 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 302.230973 GU ME Media control : | 302.230973 JE CO Convergence culture : | 302.230973 JE CO Convergence culture : | 302.230973 JE WO The wow climax : | 302.230973 LE HO How cable media polarize politics / | 302.230973 RE JO Journalism of ideas : | 302.230973 ST CR The creation of the media : |
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.
Contains essays in which scholar Henry Jenkins explores the tradition of trying to provoke an emotional reaction from the audience in a variety of media, including film, television, literature, comics, and games.