| Popular Stories and Promised Lands: Fan Cultures and Symbolic Pilgrimages Contributor(s): Aden, Roger C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0817354727 ISBN-13: 9780817354725 Publisher: University Alabama Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: "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" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture - Language Arts & Disciplines | Rhetoric - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| Series: Studies Rhetoric & Communicati |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 6.08" W x 8.96" (1.00 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |