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[ecrea] New Book: Making Sense of Popular Culture

Sat Jul 08 01:57:04 GMT 2017



New book:

RAMÓN-TORRIJOS, María del Mar & DE GREGORIO-GODEO, Eduardo, eds. (2017). /Making Sense of Popular Culture/. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-5051-3 / ISBN-10: 1-4438-5051-9)**

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Acknowledgements .................................................................................... ix

Preface ........................................................................................................ xi
Lou Charnon-Deutsch


Introduction


Chapter One ................................................................................................. 3
The Study of Popular Culture on the Agenda of Cultural Studies

Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo and María del Mar Ramón-Torrijos


Part I

Constructing Identities in Popular Culture: Print Media and Ideology


Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 19
“War Should Be like a Fever”, Or Why America Fights

Mark Cronlund Anderson


Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 31
Connecting Expert and Popular Knowledge: Health, Sexualities and

Moralities in the Early 20th Century Spanish and Bengali Magazines

Sutanuka Banerjee and Isabel Jiménez-Lucena


Part II

Topographies of Popular Culture: Spatial and Visual Representations


Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 47
Women’s Spaces: A Physical and Cultural Conquest

José Manuel Estévez-Saá


Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 57
Popular Artistic Motifs and Intermedial Figuration

Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska


Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 73
Displacing Conformity: Postwar U.S. Suburbia in 2000s Cinema

and Television

Pablo Gómez Muñoz


Part III

Bridging the Gap between the Canon and the Popular:

The Case of William Shakespeare


Chapter Seven ............................................................................................ 87
“As Wholesome as Sweet”: Generic Hybridity and Popular Culture

in Shakespeare

Himmet Umunc


Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 99
Shakespeare’s /Romeo and Juliet/: A Rhetorical Device for Propaganda

in the Political Discourse of Totalitarian Regimes

Rubén Jarazo Álvarez and Elena Domínguez Romero


Part IV

Popular Culture and Youth at the Crossroads


Chapter Nine ............................................................................................ 115
Youth, Popular Culture and Communist Propaganda: The 1953

International Youth Festival

Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu


Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 133
Canonicity and the Humanities in Spain: The Case of Children’s Literature

J. Igor Prieto-Arranz


Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 145
Fueling Empathy in the Young Adult Reader: /The Hunger Games/

Alicia Otano


Part V

Narratives of the Postmodern Condition in Film and Fiction


Chapter Twelve ....................................................................................... 157
Transgressing Fiction/Fictionalizing Transgression

Murat Göç


Chapter Thirteen ...................................................................................... 167
Popularizing Postmodern Utopian Thinking in Science Fiction Film:

/Matrix/, /V for Vendetta/, /In Time /and /Verbo/

Ángel Mateos-Aparicio


Chapter Fourteen ..................................................................................... 183
Back Where We Belong: Reverse Migration, Global Communities

and Cultural Interflows in /The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel/

Ashvin I. Devasundaram


Notes on Contributors .............................................................................. 197

Further information about the collection may be found on the publisher’s website:
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/making-sense-of-popular-culture

With thanks and very best wishes,


Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, PhD


Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Departamento de Filología Moderna, Facultad de Letras
(Eduardo.Gregorio /at/ uclm.es)
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