Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

Published by Duke University Press 2003

Hop on Pop

The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture

Edited by: Henry Jenkins III , Jane Shattuc and Tara McPherson

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822383505

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About this book

A major collection of fan-based cultural studies work, largely by a new generation of scholars.

Author / Editor information

Henry Jenkins is Anne Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of editor of several books including Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and The Children’s Culture Reader.

Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television at the University of Southern California and author of Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South.

Jane Shattuc is Associate Professor of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. She is author of The Talking Cure: Television Talk Shows and Women and Television, Tabloids, Tears: Fassbinder and Popular Culture.

Reviews

“Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson, and Jane Shattuc have collected a diverse array of intriguing insights into popular culture—not with disdain or postmodern mumble, but with real interest and even respect. Hop on Pop looks at pop culture as the water we swim in, as a muscular change agent, as the mirror held up to human nature.”—Brenda Laurel, author of Utopian Entrepreneur

"A lively travelogue of the ‘lively arts,’ Hop on Pop cheerfully transcends political, personal, and professional boundaries to offer a sprawling rainbow map of popular culture and exposes those old boundaries for the sneetch-like spooks they truly are."—Scott McCloud, cartoonist and author of Understanding Comics

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. introduction
The Culture That Sticks to Your Skin: A Manifesto for a New Cultural Studies Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Defining Popular Culture Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
II. self
Daytime Utopias: If You Lived in Pine Valley, You’d Be Home Elayne Rapping Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Cardboard Patriarchy: Adult Baseball Card Collecting and the Nostalgia for a Presexual Past John Bloom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
Virgins for Jesus: The Gender Politics of Therapeutic Christian Fundamentalist Media Heather Hendershot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
“Do We Look Like Ferengi Capitalists to You?” Star Trek’s Klingons as Emergent Virtual American Ethnics Peter Chvany Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Empress’s New Clothing? Public Intellectualism and Popular Culture Jane Shattuc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
“My Beautiful Wickedness”: The Wizard of Oz as Lesbian Fantasy Alexander Doty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
III. Maker
“Ceci N’est Pas une Jeune Fille”: Videocams, Representation, and “Othering” in the Worlds of Teenage Girls Gerry Bloustien Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
“No Matter How Small”: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss Henry Jenkins Jenkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
An Auteur in the Age of the Internet: JMS, Babylon 5, and the Net Alan Wexelblat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
“I’m a Loser Baby”: Zines and the Creation of Underground Identity Stephen Duncombe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
IV. Performance
“Anyone Can Do It”: Forging a Participatory Culture in Karaoke Bars Robert Drew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Watching Wrestling / Writing Performance Sharon Mazer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
Mae West’s Maids: Race, “Authenticity,” and the Discourse of Camp Pamela Wojcik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
“They Dig Her Message”: Opera, Television, and the Black Diva Dianne Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
How to Become a Camp Icon in Five Easy Lessons: Fetishism—and Tallulah Bankhead’s Phallus Edward O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	316
V. Taste
“It Will Get a Terrific Laugh”: On the Problematic Pleasures and Politics of Holocaust Humor Louis Kaplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
The Sound of Disaffection Tony Grajeda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	357
Corruption, Criminality, and the Nickelodeon Roberta Pearson and William Uricchio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
“Racial Cross-Dressing” in the Jazz Age: Cultural Therapy and Its Discontents in Cabaret Nightlife Nicholas Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
The Invisible Burlesque Body of La Guardia’s New York Anna McCarthy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415
Quarantined! A Case Study of Boston’s Combat Zone Eric Schaefer and Eithne Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
VI. Change
On Thrifting Matthew Tinkcom, Joy Fuqua and Amy Villarejo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Shopping Sense: Fanny Fern and Jennie June on Consumer Culture in the Nineteenth Century Elana Crane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	472
Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Killer Applications and Hybrid Criticism Greg Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
The Rules of the Game: Evil Dead II . . . Meet Thy Doom Angela Ndalianis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Seeing in Black and White: Gender and Racial Visibility from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett Tara McPherson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	517
VII. Home
“The Last Truly British People You Will Ever Know”: Skinheads, Pakis, and Morrissey Nabeel Zuberi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
Finding One’s Way Home: I Dream of Jeannie and Diasporic Identity Maria Koundoura Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	556
As Canadian as Possible . . . : Anglo-Canadian Popular Culture and the American Other Aniko Bodroghkozy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
Wheels of Fortune: Nation, Culture, and the Tour de France Catherine Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	589
Narrativizing Cyber-Travel: CD-ROM Travel Games and the Art of Historical Recovery Ellen Strain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	605
Hotting, Twocking, and Indigenous Shipping: A Vehicular Theory of Knowledge in Cultural Studies John Hartley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	622
VIII. emotion
“Ain’t I de One Everybody Come to See?!” Popular Memories of Uncle Tom’s Cabin Robyn Warhol Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	650
Stress Management Ideology and the Other Spaces of Women’s Power Kathleen Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	670
“Have You Seen This Child?” From Milk Carton to Mise-en-Abıˆme Eric Freedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	689
Introducing Horror Charles Weigl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	700
About the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	721
Name Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	733

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 760
Illustrations
- Other: 63 b&w photos

eBook

Published: January 23, 2003
ISBN: 9780822383505