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Visual Culture and Contemporary Life—Exordium
This book builds on and contributes to the current body of knowledge in the field of Visual Culture in the digital age. It investigates new symbolism...
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Contemporary Irish Popular Culture Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora
This book uses popular culture to highlight the intersections and interplay between ideologies, technological advancement and mobilities as they...
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Refugee, Museums, and Material Culture
This entry explores museums’ increased interest in the contemporary material culture of forced displacement, with a particular focus on institutions...
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Does Addiction Have A Subject?: Desire in Contemporary U.S. Culture
This paper traces the emergence of a new figure of the desiring subject in contemporary addiction science and in three other recent cultural...
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Introduction—“Fractured Movement”: Transnationalism, Regionality, and Diaspora in Contemporary Irish Popular Culture
The introduction the book details the processes that have shaped contemporary Irish life and how they are reflected through popular media texts. It...
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Polyrhythmicity in Contemporary Hybrid Culture
How does polyrhythmicity operate in contemporary culture beyond music and literature? This chapter looks at photography, film and other forms of...
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Culture Wars and Horror Movies Gender Debates in Post-2010’s US Horror Cinema
Navigating a polarized society in their representation of social values, twenty-first-century horror films critically frame conflicting and divisive...
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Simulacrum Culture
Along with other trends and technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), where people are in contact with simulated beings, objects, and places, the...
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Culture Wars and Horror Movies Social Fears and Ideology in post-2010 Horror Cinema
In this volume, contributors explore the deep ideological polarization in US society as portrayed in horror narratives and tropes. By navigating this...
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On the Wilde Side: Oscar Wilde in Contemporary Pop Culture
This chapter opens with an analysis of 1997 film Oscar by Michael Bracewell to focus on pop and rock musicians who in the last sixty years have...
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Contemporary Horror on Screen An Evolving Visual Narrative
This book highlights how horror in film and television creates platforms to address distinct areas of modern-day concern. In examining the prevalence...
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Preying on the Other: Culture Wars Narratives in Horror Hunting Films
The culture wars that had ebbed and flowed in contemporary discourse in the United States since the end of the Cold War escalated sharply with the...
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Popular Culture and IAMCR
This chapter details the formation and development of the Working Group on Popular Culture at IAMCR since 2000, placing it within the broader history...
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The Rejuvenation of Arts and Culture Through Folklore
The arts and culture in Creole societies today are often still closely associated with folklore and orature—which are rarely associated with...
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Institutions Against Art Music—Curation, Rehearsal, and Contemporary Art
This chapter analyses the work of contemporary artists who use alternative institutions to challenge accepted notions of art music. Kevin Beasley’s...
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AI, Popular Culture, Semiotics
The advent of advanced AI technologies has led to reassessments of the meaning of terms such as intelligence and creativity, given that AI systems...
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Introduction: Culture Wars Revisited: Navigating the Ideological Landscape in Post-2010 Social Horror
When Jordan Peele’s Get Out made its big-screen debut in 2017, it was met with instant, widespread praise among worldwide audiences for its creative...
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Endless Documents: Chinese Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practices in Archives
In this chapter, Dong Bingfeng discusses the phenomenon of “archival turn” in recent research on contemporary Chinese art practice. Using two...
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Internationalization and Post-Orientalism: The Evolution of the Guochao of Contemporary Chinese Video Games
The development of Chinese video games since the 1980s has been a turbulent and continuous guochao, or “national chic.” Chinese players’ demands for...
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Cultural Metaphors of Animals in Persian Culture, Literature, and Myths
Animals and expressions using animals play an important part in colloquialisms and cultural references. The analytical tools of Cultural Linguistics...