Alexander Riley

Impure Play

Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. The book rereads disparaged and vilified cultural objects ranging from gangsta rap and death metal to violent video games, using cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and the tragic as the interpretive lens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9780739129319
• ISBN-10: 0739129317
• Artikelnr.: 30629985

Autorenporträt

By Alexander Riley

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Serious Play Chapter 2. "Too Many Discos and Too Many Lovers"
Chapter 3. The Rebirth of Tragedy Chapter 4. Scandal and Impurity in Sports
Heroism Chapter 5. God Games Chapter 6. "A New Kind of Fear" Chapter 7. On
Cultural Sociology as a Way of Life