Media, Margins and Popular Culture / edited by Einar Thorsen, Heather Savigny, Jenny Alexander, and Daniel Jackson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thorsen, Einar, editor.

Savigny, Heather, editor.

Alexander, Jenny (Lecturer in media and communication), editor.

Jackson, Daniel (Lecturer in media and communication), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Summary:

Media, Margins and Popular Culture is a collection from established and emerging scholars in Media and Cultural Studies and the Social Sciences, and focuses on marginalised voices and representations; socially marginalised, marginalised in media and media scholarship. The book spans five continents and is divided into sections on gender, sexuality, nation, disability, disciplinary boundaries, youth and age. It covers media forms from Flickr to film. Chapters look at the structural and ideological construction of marginality in state and media producer censorship (in Singapore) and media scholarship (Sherlock Holmes and its adaptations). Authors consider representations of social marginality, e.g. people with dementia; artistic and self-fashioning marginality, from Quentin Crisp to tattoo artists online; and the engagement of marginal users in media spaces (fathers on Mumsnet). This book takes a fresh look at the ideological work of constructing and confronting marginality in media, from Dalits ("untouchables") in Indian cinema to neuro-diverse (autism spectrum) audience interpretations of Doctor Who.

Contents:

Introduction: marginalised voices, representations and practices / Jenny Alexander, Heather Savigny, Einar Thorsen, and Daniel Jackson

Gender and Genre

No small-talk in paradise : why Elysium fails the Bechdel test and why we should care / Christa van Raalte

You play your part : older women on screen and in production / Kirsten MacLeod

Sexuality, artistry and self-fashioning

Marginally male, centre stage and spot-lit : the (gender) trouble with Quentin Crisp / Mark J. Bendall

Registers of performance : negotiating the professional, personal and intimate in online persona creation / Kim Barbour

Artistic tactics of the everyday : ideology reframings in Grz̆inić and S̆mid's practice / Katarzyna Kosmala

Nation and its 'others'

Making sense of health messages on HIV and AIDS in South African women's magazines / Claudia van den Berg

'De margin and de centre' : repositioning race and ethnicity in diasporic European cinema / Daniela Berghahn

Cinematic narrative : the construction of Dalit identity in Bollywood / Vidushi

Disability and diversity

Dementia care and families : care decisions and emotions in popular magazines / Sanna Inthorn and Julia Inthorn

Negotiating Doctor Who : neurodiversity and fandom / Leslie Manning

Disciplinary boundaries

Tourists, vandals, and pilgrims : a study of participant responses to the Grommit Unleashed public art trail in Bristol, 2013 / Emma Pett

'I hear of Sherlock everywhere'? : the Holmes franchise at the centre and the margins / Roberta Pearson

Censorship as performance : a case of Singapore media production / Siao Yuong Fong

The three ages of 'man' (youth, age, minoritarian masculinity)

'Shoved online' : BBC Three, British television and the marginalisation of young adult audiences / Brett Mills

Self-created digital content sharing in retirement / Tim Riley

'It took a lot to admit I am male on here'. Going where few men dare to tread : men on Mumsnet / Sarah Pedersen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Media, margins and popular culture.

ISBN:

9781137512802

1137512806

OCLC:

909320788