The Wow Climax : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture

• Tác giả: Henry Jenkins
• ISBN-13: 978-0814743706
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2007.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (304 pages) : , illustrations
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 461862
• Chủ đề: 1. Aesthetics--Social aspects--United States; 2. Affect (Psychology)--United States; 3. Emotions--Social aspects--United States; 4. Mass media--Social aspects--United States; 5. Mass media--Psychological aspects--United States; 6. Popular culture--Psychological aspects--United States; 7. Popular culture--United States; 8. Culture populaire--Aspect psychologique--États-Unis; 9. Culture populaire--États-Unis; 10. Medias--Aspect social--États-Unis; 11. Aesthetics--Social aspects; 12. Affect (Psychology); 13. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Social Scientists & Psychologists; 14. Emotions--Social aspects; 15. Mass media--Psychological aspects; 16. Mass media--Social aspects; 17. Popular culture; 18. Popular culture--Psychological aspects; 19. Social conditions; 20. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies

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Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic was celebrated by other writers for its vitality, its liveliness, and its playfulness. The Wow Climax follows in the path of this more laudatory tradition, drawing out the range of emotions in popular culture and mapping what we might call an aesthetic of immediacy. It pulls together a spirited range of work from Henry Jenkins, one of our most astute media scholars, that spans different media (film, television, literature, comics, games), genres (slapstick, melodrama, horror, exploitation cinema), and emotional reactions (shock, laughter, sentimentality). Whether highlighting the sentimentality at the heart of the Lassie franchise, examining the emotional experiences created by horror filmmakers like Wes Craven and David Cronenberg and avant garde artist Matthew Barney, or discussing the emerging aesthetics of video games, these essays get to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional impact