Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
Author: Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 094296148X

A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
Author: Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher: Rethinking Schools
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780942961638

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media begins from the premise that the "popular" is political. Whether it's Disney and Barbie, or Snapchat and Vine, youth navigate, shape, and repurpose popular culture. This updated collection of teaching articles and critical commentary is written by and for educators. The authors consider the role in students' lives of films, music, and books, as well as popular culture artifacts like toys, and how these materials "teach" children. In each article, authors critique and rethink the connections among race, class, gender, sexuality, power, and schooling. The second edition includes revised articles, nine new articles, and an updated list of resources. Chapters are organized into four major themes to make the text more streamlined: Part 1: Commercialism, Corporations, and Youth Part 2: Politics, Violence, and Sanitized History Part 3: Texts, Toys, and Representation Part 4: Teaching, Talking Back, and Taking Action

Rethinking Popular Culture

Rethinking Popular Culture
Author: Chandra Mukerji
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 1991-07-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520068933

Rethinking Popular Culture presents some of the most important current scholarship analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and exciting new methods of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down disciplinary boundaries and offer fresh insight into popular culture.

Rethinking Global Security

Rethinking Global Security
Author: Andrew Martin
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2006
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0813538300

In Rethinking Global Security, Andrew Martin and Patrice Petro bring together ten path-breaking essays that explore the ways that our notions of fear, insecurity, and danger are fostered by intermediary sources such as television, radio, film, satellite imaging, and the Internet. The contributors, who represent a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, art history, media studies, women's studies, and literature, show how both fictional and fact-based threats to global security have helped to create and sustain a culture that is deeply distrustful-of images, stories, reports, and policy decisions. Topics range from the Patriot Act, to the censorship of media personalities such as Howard Stern, to the role that Buffy the Vampire Slayer and other television programming play as an interpretative frame for current events.

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Author: Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1997-01-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761901716

This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.

Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture
Author: William Irwin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2011-11-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1444390988

What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophers With examples from film, television, and music including South Park, The Matrix , X-Men, Batman, Harry Potter, Metallica and Lost, even the most abstract and complex philosophical ideas become easier to grasp Features key essays from across the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, as well as helpful editorial material and a glossary of philosophical terms From metaphysics to epistemology; from ethics to the meaning of life, this unique introduction makes philosophy as engaging as popular culture itself Supplementary website available with teaching guides, sample materials and links to further resources at www.pop-philosophy.org

Beyond Representational Correctness

Beyond Representational Correctness
Author: Edward Schiappa
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-03-27
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0791474232

Argues that representational correctness can cause critics to miss the positive work that films and television shows can perform in reducing prejudice.

Rethinking Media Change

Rethinking Media Change
Author: David Thorburn
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2004-09-17
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262264945

The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another.

Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century

Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century
Author: Astrid M. Fellner
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-11-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1527505286

This book explores popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century popular media. It brings together contributors from various European countries to investigate the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in a brave, original, and rigorous way. This volume is both an academic proposal and an exercise of commitment to a serious analysis of some of the media that influence us most in our everyday lives. Representation matters, and the position we take as viewers or consumers during reception matters even more.