Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination : : Case Studies of Creative Social Change / / ed. by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Gabriel Peters-Lazaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Alarcón, Andrea,; Banet-Weiser, Sarah,; Billard, Thomas J.,; Callison, Candis,; Duncombe, Stephen,; Elsayed, Yomna,; Ford, Sam,; Gipson, Brooklyne,; Gray, Jonathan,; Harris, Christopher,; Jenkins, Henry,; Kelvin, Jocelyn,; Kim, Donna Do-own,; Lee, Clifford,; Lee, Diana,; Levitt, Lauren,; Lopez, Rogelio Alejandro,; Miller, Joan,; Miller, Taylor Cole,; Mischie, Ioana,; Moran, Rachel E.,; Parikh, Tapan,; Pathak-Shelat, Manisha,; Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel,; Proctor, William,; Saler, Michael,; Sarkissian, Raffi,; Schnekloth, Clint,; Sengupta, Paromita,; Shresthova, Sangita,; Soep, Elisabeth,; Wanzo, Rebecca,; Wart, Sarah Van,; Yang, Emilia,; Zidani, Sulafa,; Zuckerman, Ethan,
• HerausgeberIn: Jenkins, Henry,; Peters-Lazaro, Gabriel,; Shresthova, Sangita,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 21 black and white illustrations

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a better world might look like. Civic imagination is the capacity to conceptualize alternatives to current cultural, social, political, or economic conditions;...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination:
• Part I. How Do We Imagine a Better World
• 1 Rebel Yell: The Metapolitics of Equality and Diversity in Disney’s Star Wars
• 2 The Hunger Games and the Dystopian Imagination
• 3 Spinning H. P. Lovecraft: A Villain or Hero of Our Times
• 4 Family Sitcoms’ Political Front
• 5 “To Hell with Dreams”: Resisting Controlling Narratives through Oscar Season
• Part II. How Do We Imagine the Process of Change
• 6 Imagining Intersectionality:
• 7 Code for What
• 8 Tracking Ida: Unlocking Black Resistance and Civic Imagination through Alternate Reality Gameplay
• 9 Everyone Wants Peace?
• Part III. How Do We Imagine Ourselves as Civic Agents
• 10 Learning to Imagine Better:
• 11 Black Girls Are from the Future:
• 12 “Dance to the Distortion”:
• 13 Changing the Future by Performing the Past:
• 14 Mirroring the Misogynistic Wor(l)d:
• 15 Reimagining the Arab Spring: From Limitation to Creativity
• 16 DIY VR:
• Part IV. How Do We Forge Solidarity with Others with Different Experiences Than Our Own
• 17 Training Activists to Be Fans:
• 18 Tonight, in This Very Ring . . . Trump vs. the Media:
• 19 Ms. Marvel Punches Back:
• 20 For the Horde:
• 21 Communal Matters and Scientific Facts:
• 22 Imagining Resistance to Trump through the Networked Branding of the National Park Service
• Part V. How Do We Imagine Our Social Connections with a Larger Community
• 23 Moving to a Bollywood Beat, “Born in the USA” Goes My Indian Heart?
• 24 “Our” Hamilton:
• 25 Participatory Action in Humans of New York
• 26 A Vision for Black Lives in the Black Radical Tradition
• Part VI. How Do We Bring an Imaginative Dimension to Our Real-World Spaces and Places
• 27 “Without My City, Where Is My Past?”
• 28 Reimagining and Mediating a Progressive Christian South
• 29 Tzina: Symphony of Longing:
• 30 What’s Civic about Aztlán?
• References
• Index
• About the Contributors