Resist!

Protest Media and Popular Culture in the Brexit-Trump Era

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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Resist! pays close attention to popular culture; it examines the political ramifications of Kanye West’s support of Donald Trump, the significance of Aaron Sorkin’s language to American political discourse, and the casting of female emotion as a political force in House of Cards and The Handmaid’s Tale. In doing so, the collection traverses the formal world of ‘the political’ as it relates to presidential elections and referenda, while emphasising the sociocultural and political significance of popular texts which have played a critical role in exploring, critiquing and shaping culture in the twenty first century. Popular culture is often considered trivial or irrelevant to more pressing political concerns, and celebrities are often reprimanded for their forays into the political sphere. Resist! pays close attention to texts that are too often excluded when we think about politics, and explores the cultural and political fall-out of a reality TV president and a divisive public vote on increasingly connected global audiences. In examining the cultural politics of popular media, this collection is inherently interdisciplinary, and the chapters utilise methods and analysis from a range of social science and humanities disciplines. Resist! is both creative and timely, and offers a crucial examination of a fascinating and frightening political and cultural moment.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-09-02
Mått152 x 220 x 15 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor284
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781786615718

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IntroductionPart 1: Hashtag Activism, the Celebrity Politician and Celebrities in Politics1. ‘I miss the old Kanye’: Keeping Up with Kanye, Kim and President Donald Trump, Giuliana Monteverde and Victoria McCollum 2. Unlikely Heroes? – Celebrity Activism in Times of Trump and Brexit, Sabrina MittermeierPart 2: Political Fiction, Fictional Politicians and Unbreakable Women3. The Good Fight: The Subtle Dance of Race, Gender, and Politics, Maria Cipriani4. Feeling Unbreakable: TV Heroines in the Age of Trump, Jennie CarlstenPart 3: American Dystopia, Brexit Dreams and Waking Nightmares: The Cultural Politics of Horror and the Spectacle of Violence in the Brexit-Trump Era5. In Trump’s America, The Handmaid's Tale Matters More Than Ever, Stephanie Adams6. ‘Outrage is Immediate but Moviemaking Takes Time’: 2018 and Horror Cinema’s Direct Response to President Donald Trump, Todd K Platts and Kibiriti Majuto7. The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the age of Brexit and Trump, J

With 16 other contributing authors, [Monteverde and McCollum] cover different aspects of popular culture as it has unfolded during the Brexit-Trump era, with some emphasis on cinema. Together the authors make an important claim that popular culture has become, in a time of right-wing populism, more a channel for political expression and socially responsible activism than ever before. This theme is examined in 12 chapters, adopting at points the perspective of social protest and resistance, or paying homage to earlier scholars and social scientists, e.g., Tedd Gurr and Charles Tilly.... Fairly easy to read, the chapters eschew technical language and employ ethnographic narrative including quoted examples. From a theoretical point of view, the volume is informed by discourse analysis, uniting social trends and popular expressions of cultural resistance. Recommended.

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