The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture

Publication Data

• Title The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture
• Author Henry Jenkins
• Publisher New York University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location New York, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

Games, the new lively art
Monstrous beauty and mutant aesthetics : rethinking Matthew Barney's relation to the horror genre
Death-defying heroes
Never trust a snake : WWF wrestling as masculine melodrama
Exploiting feminism in Stephanie Rothman's Terminal Island
"You don't say that in English!" : the scandal of Lupe Velez
"Going bonkers!" : children, play, and Pee-Wee
"Complete freedom of movement" : video games as gendered play spaces
"Her suffering aristocratic majesty" : the sentimental value of Lassie.

Topics

• Popular culture :: United States
• Popular culture :: United States :: Psychological aspects
• Emotions :: Social aspects :: United States
• Affect (Psychology) :: United States
• Aesthetics :: Social aspects :: United States
• Mass media :: Social aspects :: United States
• Mass media :: United States :: Psychological aspects
• United States :: Social conditions :: 1933-1945
• United States :: Social conditions :: 1945-
• United States

The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture by Henry Jenkins. ISBN 9780814742839. Published by New York University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.