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"

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roger C Aden, Roger C. Aden
• Editore: The University of Alabama Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2007
• EAN: 9780817354725
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5472-5
• Pagine: 290
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in rhetoric & communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata