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dc.contributor.authorGibson, Suzanneen
dc.date.accessioned2010-05-12T17:29:00Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.citationJournal of Sociology, 44(3), p. 307-308en
dc.identifier.issn1741-2978en
dc.identifier.issn1440-7833en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/5842-
dc.description.abstract'The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture' by Henry Jenkins analyses a variety of media in the course of discussing the affective quality and cultural power of popular aesthetic forms. His motley selection of essays covers a range of topics and issues, from computer games to comic books, WWF wrestling to 1970s sexploitation films, children's play and television programmes to the off-screen life of Lupe Velez (a 1930s Hollywood sex siren). These disconnected areas of enquiry are all drawn together on the premise that each and every form produces a requisite 'wowness' that goes beyond the textual limits of the subject matter and the contexts of their initial reception. In this way, Jenkins' book is largely about the role of memory and nostalgia in generating the emotional force of popular entertainment forms.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Sociologyen
dc.titleBook Review: 'The Wow Climax: Tracing The Emotional Impact of Popular Culture', Henry Jenkins: New York: New York University Press, 2007, 284 pp. $39.95 (paperback)en
dc.typeReviewen
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14407833080440030605en
dc.subject.keywordsCultural Theoryen
local.contributor.firstnameSuzanneen
local.subject.for2008200204 Cultural Theoryen
local.subject.seo2008950203 Languages and Literatureen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailsgibson5@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryD3en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20100422-185310en
local.publisher.placeUnited Kingdomen
local.format.startpage307en
local.format.endpage308en
local.identifier.volume44en
local.identifier.issue3en
local.title.subtitle'The Wow Climax: Tracing The Emotional Impact of Popular Culture', Henry Jenkins: New York: New York University Press, 2007, 284 pp. $39.95 (paperback)en
local.contributor.lastnameGibsonen
dc.identifier.staffune-id:sgibson5en
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:5984en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitleBook Reviewen
local.output.categorydescriptionD3 Review of Single Worken
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zrjo5f3TvHsCen
local.search.authorGibson, Suzanneen
local.uneassociationUnknownen
local.identifier.wosid000259081200010en
local.year.published2008en
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