Popular Stories and Promised Lands - Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages

Informationen zum Autor Roger C. Aden is Associate Professor of Interpersonal Communication at Ohio University. Klappentext "Popular culture stories--found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies--gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties. Aden offers a well-constructed argument that creating a sense of place (and with it a sense of personal identity and community) serves as an important enticement for many popular cultures works. . . . Aden handles contemporary theory deftly [and] does an excellent job of identifying many of the tensions present in 20th-century America." --"Quarterly Journal of Speech " "Stories encountered at the movies, on television, and in popular magazines are treated as reflections of the popular culture. . . . Believing that the American experience has been guided by a 'normative narrative' or 'grand narrative' that constitutes the 'American dream, ' Aden holds that stories can be used to extract the 'rules' of a narrative, determine the direction, and identify conceptions of the 'promised lands' for a culture." --"Critical Studies in Mass Communication"

Product details

• Authors: Roger C Aden, Roger C. Aden
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2007
• EAN: 9780817354725
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5472-5
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric / Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)