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Popular stories and promised lands : fan cultures and symbolic pilgrimages / Roger C. Aden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aden, Roger C., 1962-
- Series:
- Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
- Studies Rhetoric & Communicati.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Escape (Psychology)--United States.
- Escape (Psychology).
- Imaginary places in mass media.
- Fans (Persons)--United States--Psychology.
- Fans (Persons).
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Psychological aspects--United States.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media--Social aspects--United States.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 pages)
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going Popular Stories and Promised Lands enters a conversation about who we are, where we've been, and where we might be going by suggesting that possible answers to those questions can be found in the popular stories we encounter at the movies, on television, in popular.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: I'm a Big Fan: Popular Stories, Habitus, and Places That Matter; Part 1: Theoretical Development; 1. The Search for Promised Lands: Dominant Visions of Sacred Places in U.S. Culture; 2. The Foundations of Symbolic Pilgrimage: Theoretical Conversations About Places That Matter; 3. Symbolic Pilgrimages: Experiencing Popular Stories as Purposeful, Imaginary-Yet-Real Journeys; Part 2: Illustrations; 4. Exiled in Cubeville, Striving for Nerdvana: Dilbert as a Critique of Phony Meritocracy
- 5. Transforming the Panopticon Into the Funhouse: Negotiating Disorientation in The X-Files6. Playing in a Perfect Place: Sports Illustrated and an American Elysian Field; 7. Integrating Self and Community as a Means of Finding Homes: The Shift from Consumerism to Altruistic Producerism in Field of Dreams; Conclusion: The Return Home; Postscript; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-283) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-9125-8
- 0-585-09702-X
- OCLC:
- 966824893
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