Isn't it Ironic? (eBook, ePUB)

Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture
Redaktion: Kinane, Ian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bringing together studies of a range of texts, this volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining meaning, arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000377019
• Artikelnr.: 61282143

Autorenporträt

Ian Kinane is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, UK. He is the author of Ian Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence and Theorising Literary Islands, the editor of Didactics and the Modern Robinsonade, and the co-editor of Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Isn't it Ironic?: Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture 1. Peeling The Onion: Pop Culture Satire in the Writing Classroom 2. For Your Eyes Only?: Brexit, Bond, and British Meme Culture 3. 'About 136': Bob Dylan's Democratic Irony 4. New Irony and Old Sincerity: How the Metamodern and the Post-secular Meet in Indie Rock 5. Sarcastic Turbulence: Irony, Seriousness, and Ambiguity in Black Metal Music Culture 6. Funny People: Comedic Performance and Irony in Knocked Up and This is 40 7. Irony and Iron Man: The Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Postmodern Rejection of Values 8. 'We Could All Do with Some School': The Miseducation of Elizabeth and Charles in Netflix's The Crow 9. Human After All: The Irony of Black Mirror