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Masculinity in Breaking Bad
Following on author Peter Rollins' motto "If it isn't popular, it isn't culture," this collection of new essays considers Vince Gilligan's award-winning television series Breaking Bad as a landmark of Western culture--comparable to the works of Shakespeare and Dickens in their time--that merits scholarly attention from those who would understand early the 21st century zeitgeist. The essayists explore the series as a critique of American concepts of masculinity, with Walter White discussed as a father archetype--provider, protector, author of a legacy--and as a Machiavellian warrior on the capitalist battleground. Other topics include the mutual exclusivity of intellect and masculinity in American culture, and the dramatic irony as White's rationales for his criminal life are gradually revealed as a lie. In "round table" chapters, contributors discuss the show's reception, fans who root for "Team Walt," "Skyler-hating" and Breaking Bad as a feminist text.
The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises
Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing...
The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature
The Routledge Handbook of Trans Literature examines the intersection of transgender studies and literary studies, bringing together essays from global experts in the field. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of trans literature, highlighting the core topics, genres, and periods important for scholarship now and in the future. Covering the main approaches and key literary genres of the area, this volume includes: Examination of the core topics guiding contemporary trans literary theory and criticism, including the Anthropocene, archival speculation, activism, BDSM, Black studies, critical plant studies, culture, diaspora, disability, ethnocentrism, home, inclusion, monstrosity, non...
Body Images in the Post-cinematic Scenario
Within the 'Post-Cinematic' or 'Post-Media' condition, the body becomes a changeable, flexible 'unstable object'. The first part of this book analyses the presence of body in television/film productions and in social media (changes, aesthetics, new spaces); the second part focuses on the relationship between the digital media and the viewer/user,
The Archives
The digital age has witnessed the development of a new kind of archive: immaterial, “living and moving,” largely user-generated, and conceived for managing a wide variety of audio-visual materials, besides traditional films and videos. The first part of this anthology investigates the ways in which media forms like web-documentaries, video art and digital art, web series, amateur productions, and also mobile films can be stored and preserved withinthe new digital repositories. The second part focuses on archival and preservation practices of the video game. This approach understands the archive not simply as a “memory box,” but as a fully contemporary practice that locates new media objects in the present and acknowledges their changing cultural and social configurations. The democratic, often immaterial, living, mobile nature of contemporary archives forces us to question whether or not the traditional notion of “the archive” still has a heuristic value. Or if it would be perhaps better to reject any “conventional” idea of archive and embrace the notion of anarchive.
Storia della definizione di morte
Esiste un confine certo tra vita e morte? Il volume ripercorre, con un approccio transculturale, la storia della definizione di morte e le vicende connesse alle tecniche di accertamento del decesso dall'antichità ai giorni nostri. Da sempre, infatti, medici, filosofi e teologi si sono sforzati di individuare il momento preciso dell'exitus, l'istante in cui, secondo la tradizione, l'anima avrebbe lasciato il corpo. Nondimeno, soglie e parametri stabiliti da una generazione furono spesso posti in discussione e ridisegnati dalla successiva. Alimentato dai successi conseguiti nelle tecniche rianimative e nella trapiantologia, il dibattito ha conosciuto una fase di grande vivacità proprio negli ultimi decenni, tanto che, pur avendo in genere abbandonato - o, perlomeno, ridimensionato - considerazioni su principi metafisici, la definizione di morte appare ancor oggi come un oggetto di negoziazione scientifica e bioetica.
Cinema e Storia 2023. Found footage
Una rivista che si colloca su una terra di confine in buona parte ancora da esplorare. Ogni numero presenta contributi interdisciplinari focalizzati su un tema monografico e uniti da un filo comune: lo studio dell’immaginario e delle sue interazioni con la realtà, quale ideale luogo di incontro e dialogo tra il cinema, gli audiovisivi, la cultura visuale e la storia.
I mondi di Miyazaki
Questa nuova edizione di I mondi di Miyazaki si arricchisce di un saggio sull’ultimo lavoro realizzato dal maestro dell’animazione, Il ragazzo e l’airone (2023), che analizza il film sia dal punto di vista estetico sia da quello della sua storia produttiva e distributiva. Il volume si compone inoltre di saggi, scritti da studiosi ed esperti di animazione e di cinema giapponese, che intrecciano e sviluppano i principali temi messi in campo dalle pellicole di Miyazaki Hayao durante tutta la sua carriera. Dal concetto di ucronia a un’analisi storica di Principessa Mononoke, dal significato della tecnica al rapporto fra natura e scienza in Si alza il vento, fino a uno studio sulle musiche di Hisaishi Joe. Completano questa edizione contributi che affrontano due manga realizzati da Miyazaki, Nausicaä della Valle del vento e Il viaggio di Shuna.
