James Dean Transfigured: The Many Faces of Rebel Iconography
Autor Claudia Springeren Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 feb 2007
The rebel figure has mass appeal precisely because of its ambiguities; it can mean anything to anyone. The global appropriation of rebel iconography has invested it with fresh meanings. Author Claudia Springer succeeds here in analyzing both ends of the spectrum—the rebel icon as a tool in upholding capitalism's cycle of consumption, and as a challenge to that cycle and its accompanying beliefs.
In this groundbreaking study of rebel iconography in international popular culture, Springer studies a variety of texts from the United States and abroad that use this imagery in contrasting and thought-provoking ways. Using a cultural studies approach, she analyzes films, fiction, poems, Web sites, and advertisements to determine the extent to which the icon's adaptations have been effective as a response to the actual social problems affecting contemporary adolescents around the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292714441
ISBN-10: 0292714440
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 29 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292714440
Pagini: 260
Ilustrații: 29 b&w illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Claudia Springer is an independent scholar living in Newton, Massachusetts. She was a professor in the English Department and Film Studies Program at Rhode Island College for many years.
Cuprins
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Rebel Icon
- Chapter 1: Birth of an Icon
- Chapter 2: Disney's Dean
- Chapter 3: Rebel Wrecks
- Chapter 4: The Teen Rebel
- Chapter 5: The Postcolonial Rebel
- Chapter 6: The Posthuman Rebel
- Chapter 7: The Virtual Rebel
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
An exploration of the international legacy of rebel imagery made popular by James Dean in the 1950s.