K. Shannon Howard

Unplugging Popular Culture (eBook, PDF)

Reconsidering Analog Technology, Materiality, and the "Digital Native"

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate a ban on technology or a refusal to acknowledge its affordances but work instead to highlight the ability of fictional characters to move from high tech settings to low tech ones. By repurposing everyday materials, characters model the process of reusing and upcycling existing materials in innovative ways. In studying examples such as Pitch Perfect, Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Get Out, the book aims to make theories surrounding materiality apparent within popular culture and to help today's readers reconsider stereotypes of the young people they encounter on a daily basis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429960536
• Artikelnr.: 56840680

Autorenporträt

K. Shannon Howard is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University Montgomery, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Unplugging: "It Forces You to Play Differently" Chapter One
"My Charade is the Event of the Season:" Celebrating Supernatural with
Materiality, Music, and Generations X to Z Chapter Two Beca as Bricoleur:
How Pitch Perfect Characters Embrace Materiality and Music Chapter Three
Analog Dinosaurs and Abandoned Kids in Jurassic World Chapter Four "Don't
Adjust Whatever Device You're Hearing This On:" (Dis)embodiment and Analog
Technology in 13 Reasons Why Chapter Five Complicating Materiality and
Generational Labels: Get Out and the Role of the Collector Chapter Six
Solving Z for X: Extending Generational Paradigms in Stranger Things
Conclusion Blooming (and Burning) Where You Are Planted: The Optimism of
Generation Z