The Wow Climax : : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture / / Henry Jenkins.
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudev...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Wow!
- Part I The Lively Arts
- Introduction
- 1 Games, the New Lively Art
- 2 Monstrous Beauty and Mutant Aesthetics Rethinking Matthew Barney’s Relationship to the Horror Genre
- Part II The Immediate Experience
- Introduction
- 3 Death-Defying Heroes
- 4 Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama
- 5 Exploiting Feminism in Stephanie Rothman’s Terminal Island
- 6 “You Don’t Say That in English!” The Scandal of Lupe Velez
- Part III Welcome to the Playground
- Introduction
- 7 “Going Bonkers!” Children, Play, and Pee-Wee
- 8 “Complete Freedom of Movement” Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces
- 9 “Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty” The Sentimental Value of Lassie
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author