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An exploration of "cumulative narrative" focuses on the story of the abduction of Samantha Mulder, FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder's younger sister, on the TV series, The X-Files. Perusal of the recurring Samantha theme over the seven seasons aired in the UK through 2000 notes that Fox Mulder's pursuit of answers related to the X-files is motivated by his desire to discover the truth behind his sister's abduction. The Samantha narrative is considered in light of both a "popular culture of conspiracy," which involves the production, circulation, & consumption of conspiracy theories in popular culture, & the "conspiracy of popular culture," which centers on how "fringe knowledges" about things like alien abductions achieve mass exposure & popularity. The X-Files includes the essential elements of conspiracy theories while emphasizing the search for "truth," but it is just one of many pop-cultural products with conspiracy at its core. Theodor Adorno's (1994) astrological readings are drawn on to examine the knowledge, commodity, & culture forms/functions that help to shape the current landscape of conspiracy. 25 References. J. Lindroth

From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the c

How do nations come to shape our collective imagination so profoundly? This book argues that the power of national identity and national belonging stems, in part, from the ways in which nationalism is embedded in popular culture. Comprised of chapters covering a wide range of cases from both the Global North and Global South (including Argentina, Australia, Canada, Europe, Israel, Pakistan, and the United States), the text unpacks the connections between nationalism and film, television, music, and other facets of everyday culture. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture can help us understand why and how nationhood has become so deeply entrenched in modern society. This book will be of interest to scholars of political science, nationalism, sociology, history, media studies, and cultural studies.

"With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs and video clips attracting a wide and enthusiastic global reception, we might well ask whether death has ceased to be a taboo. What makes thanatic themes so desirable in popular culture? Do representations of the macabre and gore perpetuate or sublimate violent desires? Has contemporary popular culture removed our unease with death? Can social media help us to cope with our mortality, or can music and art present death as an aesthetic phenomenon? This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic and theoretical aspects of the ways in which in popular culture understands, represents and manages death, bringing together contributions from around the world focused on television, cinema, popular literature, social media and the internet, art, music and advertising"--

"From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. In this volume, contributors--literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture--examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here. "--

At the end of the Second World War, the countries of Western Europe found themselves in a state of economic and physical ruin and, in the cases of Germany, Italy and France, in a position of, at best, moral and political ambiguity and, at worst, outright bankrupcy. Only Britain emerged from the war with its political regime intact and its moral purpose vindicated, although paradoxically its economy was to prove the most severely wounded. Perhaps because of the very scale of the disaster, however, Western Europe embarked upon a process of reconstruction, aided financially by the Marshall Plan, which embodied grandiose ambitions for a radical rebirth. The Italian Communist Party's weekly magazine, for example, was called Rinascita, whilst the French Communist weekly Les Lettres Françaises celebrated a 'new French "renaissance", encompassing political life, urban redevelopment and a whole range of cultural development, which was seen, in the early days of the Liberation, as the legitimate reward and goal of the Resistance'. In Germany, the recognition of 1945 as constituting a Nullpunkt or Stunde Null, made possible the Kahlschlag, or clean sweep which would propel the new Republic towards democracy and prosperity. Even in Britain, there was the sense of the dawning of a new era, and if the Festival of Britain, in 1951, looked back to the Great Exhibition a century earlier and celebrated traditional British qualities, whilst also flexing the nation's industrial and military muscles, with the death of King George VI and the accession of his daughter, the country embarked, quite literally and self-consciously, on a 'New Elizabethan' age.

International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...

International audience ; The book includes twelve contributions (three in French, four in English, five in Italian) covering a wide spectrum of locations around the world: from Hawaii to Italy (Sicily, the Alps, the Neapolitan area: the Phlegraean Fields, Ischia island and mount Vesuvius), from the Democratic Republic of Congo to India, from Papua New Guinea to Latin America. It proceeds from different interpretative perspectives, so as to overcome the disciplinary boundaries and to encourage readings that can be integrated with each other. The same variety is present both in the field of disasters and in popular/oral literature. In the first case, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, droughts, landslides and mudflows, glaciers and global warming are evoked. In the second, popular legends, proverbs, fairy tales, myths, collective memory, plausible tales, conspiracy theories and urban legends.BOOK INDEX:Preface - Joel CandauIntroduction - Giovanni Gugg, Elisabetta Dall'O', Domenica BorrielloSection I - Magnitude1. L'isola nata in mezzo al mare. Mitopoiesi, disastri e microcosmi - Ugo Vuoso2. The Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas Project and the moral decay of the universe - Michael Main3. Pozzuoli, 2 marzo 1970: lo sgombero del rione Terra nella memoria dei puteolani - Maria Laura LongoSection II - Eruptions4. Il vulcano meraviglioso. Antropologia del racconto fantastico vesuviano - Giovanni Gugg5. Les Volcans des Virunga à l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo, une perception populaire: un mythe ou une réalité ? - Patrick Habakaramo, Gracia Mutalegwa, Justin Kahuranyi, Katcho Karume6. Ka wahine 'ai honua, la donna che divora la terra: un'analisi ecoantropologica del mito di Pele - Emanuela Borgnino 7. The Veil of Saint Agatha in Popular Narratives of Etna Risk - Salvatore Cannizzaro, Gian Luigi Corinto Section III - Conspiracies8. Les théories du complot : entre croyances, légendes et menaces sociales - Christine Bonardi 9. Une esthétique de l'impensable. Miettes pour une anthropologie généralisée du ...