Age of the Geek
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-65743-1 (ISBN)
Kathryn E. Lane is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, USA. Lane founded the Geek and Popular Culture area at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference in 2012. She has published an article on BBC's series Sherlock, presented on The Big Bang Theory, Scorpion, and Blindspot.
Chapter 1: How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?.- Chapter 2: A Nerd, A Geek, and a Hipster Walk Into a Bar....- Chapter 3: Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multi-Methodological Ideographic Cluster Analysis of and on Twitter.- Chapter 4: Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts.- Chapter 5: Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality.- Chapter 6: Ich Bin Ein Nerd!: Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media.- Chapter 7: Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and Sports.- Chapter 8: Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Towards an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities.- Chapter 9: How Is It Okay to be a Black Nerd?.- Chapter 10: That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body.- Chapter 11: Modern Nerd: Alex Dunphy and Growing Up Geeky in Modern Family.- Chapter 12: From Zero to Hero and Back Again: Nerd Nobodies, Magic Makeovers, and the Power of the American Dream in Four Teen Films.- Chapter 13: The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film.- Chapter 14: The Horror of the Geek: The Nerd Archetype in Slasher Film.- Chapter 15: Survival of the Smartest?.
Erscheinungsdatum | 01.12.2017 |
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Zusatzinfo | XV, 297 p. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 529 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | American Culture • Cultural Studies • culture and gender • Film: styles & genres • Film: styles & genres • Geekdom • Geeks/Nerds in Film • Geeks/Nerds in Television • Genre • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • media and communication • Media Studies • Nerddom • popular culture • society & culture: general • Society & culture: general • Subidentification |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-65743-7 / 3319657437 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-65743-1 / 9783319657431 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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