In Media Res

Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Herausgeber: Peterson, James Braxton

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Produktbeschreibung

In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular culture, including race, technology, gender, media, and politics. Its scope and coverage of a wide range of popular issues make this book a powerful introduction to popular culture studies in the contemporary moment.    

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486490
• ISBN-10: 1611486491
• Artikelnr.: 41454061

Autorenporträt

James Braxton Peterson is associate professor of English and director of Africana studies at Lehigh University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Into the Midst
of Things James Braxton Peterson Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask
Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind Imani Perry Chapter 2: Consolidating a
Hip Hop Nation: Revisiting the Videotaped Police Beating of Rodney King, 20
Years Later Tanji Gilliam Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked: MF
DOOM and the Trope of the Mask Nicholas James Chapter 4: The Superhero
Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture Will Boone Part II: Visual Matter Chapter 5:
I Have a Meme: Photography, Memory, and Digital Commemorations of the March
on Washington Paul M. Farber Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep? A Case Study
on Shameful National Orientations Emily Churilla Chapter 7:
Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men Scott St.
Pierre Part III: Global Flows Chapter 8: Selected Poems Suheir Hammad
Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima's Sankofa Belinda Monique
Waller-Peterson Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who
Love Them: The Blackening of British Culture in Gautam Malkani's
Londonstani Delores B. Phillips Chapter 11: "A True and Faithful Account of
Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy," written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, a short story
Adam Mansbach Part IV: Culture of Personality Chapter 12: Richard Pryor's
Pain: From Stand-Up Comedy to Hollywood Film Sean Springer Chapter 13: You
Are Now Tuned Into the ... Greatest: Jay-Z and the Spectacle of the Cool
Wilfredo Gomez Chapter 14: Disassembling the "Matrix of Domination":
Janelle Monae's Transformative Vision Carrie Walker Chapter 15: "Dreams of
the Drum": A Keynote Address Michael Eric Dyson Bibliography Sound
Recordings About the Contributors Index