Materiality and Popular Culture (eBook, ePUB)

The Popular Life of Things
Redaktion: Malinowska, Anna; Lebek, Karolina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317219125
• Artikelnr.: 45682914

Autorenporträt

Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. Her research interests embrace critical theory, popular culture, material culture and love studies. She is particularly interested in the formation of social and cultural norms and social-aesthetic codes of cultural production Karolina Lebek is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. She specializes in early modern studies, specifically in the study of objects as well as material cultures, i. e. theorizing and representing things in cultural and literary practices.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Popular Life of Things
[Anna Malinowska and Karolina Lebek]
Part 1: Theorizing the Popular and the Material
1. Culture: The 'Popular' and the 'Material'
[John Storey]
2. Cultural Materialisms and Popular Processes of Late Modernity
[Anna Malinowska]
3. The Secret Life of Things: Speculative Realism and the Autonomous Object
[Grzegorz Czemiel]
Part 2: From Material Media to Digital Materiality
4. The Representation of Book Culture in ItNarratives
[Joanna Maciulewicz]
5. The Intimacy of Writing - Lost in a Digital Age?
[Mayannah N. Dahlheim]
6. Popular Digital Imaging: Photoshop as Middlebroware
[Frédérik Lesage]
7. When You Are Not What You Do Not Have: Some Remarks on Digital
Inheritance
[Marcin Sarnek]
Part 3: The Agency of Things and the Negotiation of Meaning
8. I See Faces: Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning
[Joanne Lee]
9. From Piss-Communication to GraffARTi: Hegemony, Popular Culture and the
Bastard Art
[David Walton]
10. From Performance to Objects and Back: London's Inter-ion
[Lucia Vodanovic]
11. Bohemian Bourgeoisie and Subversive Commodities
[Bartosz Stopel]
Part 4: Popular Narratives and Material Culture
12. Objects Don't Lie: The Truth and the Things in Detective Stories
[Joanna Söko]
13. Emotional Territories: An Exploration of Wes Anderson's Cinemaps
[Nicolas Llano Linares]
14. The Poetics of Objects in True Detective
[Karolina Lebek]
15. Mapping the Daytime Landscape: World-Building on US Soap Opera
[C. Lee Harrington and Byron Miller]
Part 5: Material Culture and the Creative Self
16. In Reverse: Declining Automobility and the Accidents of Progress
[Marcin Mazurek]
17. Living Dolls - A Food Studies Perspective
[Nina Augustynowicz]
18. Contemporary Toys, Adults and Creative Material Culture: from Wow to
Flow to Glow
[Katriina Heliakka]
19. From Stuff to Material Civilization - Towards a Materiality of
Childhood
[David James]