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Parasocial politics : audiences, pop culture, and politics / edited by Jason Zenor ; contributors, Gregory Adamo [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Audiences.
- Mass media.
- Popular culture--Political aspects--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Social aspects--United States.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Parasocial Politics</span><span> explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.</span></span>
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; I: Entertainment, Celebrity, and Institutions; 1 Reading the President; 2 Studying Audience Subjectivity; 3 The Wire and Urban Life; 4 Celebrity Persuasion in the Political Arena; II: Fandom, Fantasy, and Real Politics; 5 Storytelling through World-Building; 6 Are You a Lebowski Achiever?; 7 The Dark Knight of the Soul; III: Millenials, Diversity, and Entertainment; 8 Millennials, Citizenship, and How I Met Your Mother; 9 Talking Racial Politics Online; 10 "Nigga You Gay"; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors; About the Editor
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 12, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 0-7391-8390-7
- OCLC:
- 894892991
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