The Wow Climax Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture

Building on the tradition of social commentators such as Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, and Susan Sontag, Henry Jenkins brings his outstanding insight and compassionate counsel to contemporary cultural phenomena. Here not only media, but affect, matters. A delightful and helpful collection on popular pleasures. - Janet Staiger,author of Media Reception Studies Offers a lively, diligently researched, and well-written account of one scholar's engagement with the emotional punch of media. (PsycCRITIQUES)