Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2

Brian Johnston, Susan Mackey-Kallis

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Drawing upon the works of Marshal McLuhan, Joseph Campbell, Thomas S. Frentz, and Janice Hocker Rushing, this book unpacks U2's long-term success, con... Lees meer

Communicating with Memes

Grant Kien

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, the causes of these conseque... Lees meer

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and oth... Lees meer

Nostalgic Generations and Media

Ryan Lizardi

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book explores contemporary media's reliance on nostalgia in video games, movies, streaming sites, and even social media in their attempt to attra... Lees meer

Beer Culture in Theory and Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Beer culture has grown exponentially in the United States, from the days of Prohibition to the signing of HR 1337 by then-President Jimmy Carter, whic... Lees meer

Communicating with Memes

Grant Kien

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment,... Lees meer

Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Andrew F Herrmann, Art Herbig

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book explores new and emerging ways to approach popular culture--from case studies to emerging theories--and examines how popular culture, media,... Lees meer

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and oth... Lees meer

Myth, Fan Culture, and the Popular Appeal of Liminality in the Music of U2

Brian Johnston, Susan Mackey-Kallis

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• U2's ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and nihilism; finding meaning... Lees meer

Fractured Fandoms

Carrielynn D Reinhard

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book explores the communication issues and power dynamics in fandoms and fan communities to understand the problems fans experience when they int... Lees meer

Communication in Kink

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This edited collection focuses on varying communication perspectives in the Fifty Shades of Grey series including rhetoric, consent, romance, news cov... Lees meer

Organizational Communication Approaches to the Works of Joss Whedon

Andrew F Herrmann

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book offers an in-depth analysis of the connections between communication, organization, gender, discourses, and ethics in the works of Joss Whed... Lees meer

Fractured Fandoms

Carrielynn D Reinhard

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Being a fan helps people to discover their identities, find friends, develop a sense of belonging, express themselves creatively, and act as powerful ... Lees meer

Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture

Andrew F Herrmann, Art Herbig

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Co... Lees meer

Beer Culture in Theory and Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• The contributors of this collection explore various aspects and questions surrounding craft beer culture from perspectives of business, gender, commun... Lees meer

Pop Culture Yoga

Kristen C Blinne

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book offers insight into the many identity work processes in play in the construction of yoga categories, inviting readers to consider pop cultur... Lees meer

One Size Does Not Fit All

• Hardcover | Engels | Communication Perspectives in Popular Culture
• This book explores how popular culture texts represent and focus on the body and how this focus exacerbates the potential for these representations to... Lees meer