Popular Stories and Promised Lands : Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages Paperback / softback
by Roger C. Aden
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Popular culture stories--found in comic strips, TV programs, magazines, and movies--gain their popularity by evoking our desires and anxieties.
Aden offers a well-constructed argument that creating a sense of place (and with it a sense of personal identity and community) serves as an important enticement for many popular cultures works. . . . Aden handles contemporary theory deftly and] does an excellent job of identifying many of the tensions present in 20th-century America. --Quarterly Journal of Speech Stories encountered at the movies, on television, and in popular magazines are treated as reflections of the popular culture. . . . Believing that the American experience has been guided by a 'normative narrative' or 'grand narrative' that constitutes the 'American dream, ' Aden holds that stories can be used to extract the 'rules' of a narrative, determine the direction, and identify conceptions of the 'promised lands' for a culture. --Critical Studies in Mass Communication
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2007
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- ISBN:9780817354725
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:The University of Alabama Press
- Publication Date:30/07/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780817354725