Tara Brabazon

Thinking Popular Culture

War, Terrorism and Writing

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about war and popular culture, and war in popular culture. Tara Brabazon summons, probes, questions and reclaims popular culture, challenging the assumptions of war, whiteness, Christianity, modernity and progress that have dominated our lives since September 11. It is essential reading for any scholar of cultural studies and popular culture, media and journalism, creative writing and terrorism studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780754675297
• ISBN-10: 0754675297
• Artikelnr.: 45154540

Autorenporträt

Tara Brabazon is Professor of Education and Head of the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: interventions in/denial
Think: Google is white bread for the mind
Stop crying - start thinking. Putting the punch back into pop
Coalition of the guilty
The 8th deadly sin
When Paris became a celebrity, not a city
Free wiki (but what is the cost?)
It's only food, dude
Crazy frog capitalism
What are the young people wearing?
You've been Jaded. Design: The last punk
Mad about the boy (London)
Handbag nation
A game you play with your brain: philosophy football
Punking yoga
Kindle surprise. Sonic: 2 bars
As cool as the crickets
It's not easy being Johnny Cash
Play 'great leap forward', you bastard
Singing a city
Downloading democracy
I know I won't be leaving here with the Archduke
I'm with stupid. Vision: What have you ever done on the telly?
Pree-sen-na kul-cha
You've got to have a good haircut: Live Forever and an end of spin
I don't believe you. You're a liar
Bad wolf
28.06.42.12
Life, death and disco
Winds of change
Conclusion: cut Elvis
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Index.