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Author Aden, Roger C., 1962-

Title Popular stories and promised lands : fan cultures and symbolic pilgrimages / Roger C. Aden.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1999]
©1999
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in rhetoric and communication
Studies in rhetoric and communication.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Contents Introduction: I'm a Big Fan: Popular Stories, Habitus, and Places That Matter -- Theoretical Development -- Search for Promised Lands: Dominant Visions of Sacred Places in U.S. Culture -- Foundations of Symbolic Pilgrimage: Theoretical Conversations About Places That Matter -- Symbolic Pilgrimages: Experiencing Popular Stories as Purposeful, Imaginary-Yet-Real Journeys -- Exiled in Cubeville, Striving for Nerdvana: Dilbert as a Critique of Phony Meritocracy -- Transforming the Panopticon Into the Funhouse: Negotiating Disorientation in The X-Files -- Playing in a Perfect Place: Sports Illustrated and an American Elysian Field -- 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.
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Subject Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Popular culture.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- United States.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects.
Fans (Persons) -- United States -- Psychology.
Fans (Persons)
Psychology.
Imaginary places in mass media.
Imaginary places in mass media.
Escape (Psychology) -- United States.
Escape (Psychology)
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Aden, Roger C. (Roger Craig), 1962- Popular stories and promised lands. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©1999 0817309381 (DLC) 98019755 (OCoLC)39147774
ISBN 058509702X (electronic book)
9780585097022 (electronic book)
0817309381

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