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1 online resource (vi, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Contents |
Imagining popular culture spatially / Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela -- The geopolitical aesthetic of Middle-Earth : Tolkien, cinema and literary cartography / Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Anti-colonial discourses in Joe Sacco's Palestine : making space for the losers of history / Ranthild Salzer --Beyond the couch gag : reading the suburb and its consumerist discontents / Markku Salmela -- Post-Soviet cultural space and the epistemology of consumption in Viktor Pelevin's Empire V / Saara Ratilainen -- Conquering oceans on a second-hand Ship of Fools : the East German deep-sea fishing vessel as heterotopia / Withold Bonner -- Spectral island topographies : geology, cultural sedimentation and the haunted East-West relations in Letters from Iwo Jima and Skyfall / Johannes Riquet --Topographies of poverty : imagining Calcutta in City of Joy / Raita Merivirta -- The formation of cultural topographies and popular seriality : the cases of Sherlock Holmes / Birgit Neumann and Jan Rupp -- Mario Puzo's The godfather : immigrants' home country reterritorialised in the US / Irina Kabanova -- Puritans, sheiks, and cowboys : remasculinisation and the American West in Earl Derr Biggers's The Chinese Parrot / Maarit Piipponen. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture's topographies. In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatia. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Popular culture.
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Popular culture. |
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Space in literature.
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Space in literature. |
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East and West in literature.
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East and West in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Piipponen, Maarit, editor.
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Salmela, Markku, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Topographies of popular culture. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443894737 (OCoLC)956623101 |
| ISBN |
9781443899161 (electronic book) |
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144389916X (electronic book) |
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1443894737 |
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9781443894739 |
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