Between communities and identities: Mapping out hedonistic and leisure-lifestyle behaviours in the techno subcultures of...
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Living at Night in Times of Pandemic
Club culture has become an ever-growing interdisciplinary research field in the social sciences. The contributors to this volume offer state of the art perspectives on night studies in France and Germany and the techno scene from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. They explore three main areas: scenes and communities; diversity and in...
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Modern Folk: The Folk Revival and American Cold War Culture, 1958 – 1965
From 1958 to 1965, interest in folk music skyrocketed across the United States, especially among young, White, middle-class Americans. From basement coffeehouses in New York, to college folksong societies on college campuses, to tony nightclubs in Los Angeles, folk music became the hip new trend. The widespread field of revivalism disagreed over th...
Coping mechanisms for being alive in the anthropocene. L’ecofemminismo spirituale intersezionale di Brit Marling: testi,...
Focalizzandosi sull’analisi dei film e della serie creati da Brit Marling con alcuni collaboratori ricorrenti (Sound of my Voice [2011], Another Earth [2011], The East [2013], The OA [2016-2019]), il contributo propone una lettura dell’opera dell’autrice nel contesto di un ecofemminismo spirituale intersezionale rintracciabile nella sua poetica, fa...
Of Dancers and Martial Artists : Historic Emasculation, Hegemonic Masculiniy, and Popular Culture in Donald Duk and Inte...
This essay aims to investigate constructions of masculinity in Frank Chin’s Donald Duk and Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown, comparing them to each other, and scrutinizing them through Raewyn Connell’s framework of hegemonic masculinity. Moreover, it aims to analyze the utilization of popular culture in identity formation within the two novels. Furt...
American Football in the Audiovisual Field: Narrative, Specularity, Disembodiment
As a mediatized spectator sport, American tackle football has never been more popular. At the same time, football’s undeniable connection with traumatic brain injuries and degenerative brain disease has spurred a decline in youth participation and an existential predicament. Fewer kids are playing the sport, but will Americans ever stop consuming f...
Introduction : Popular Culture, Media Engagement, and Democracy
I Get My Kicks from Magazines : A study of the portrayal of women in U.S., German, and Swedish pop-culture magazines in ...
While not being the first thing to come to mind when reminiscing or imagining the 1970s and 1980s; these decades would see great changes within feminism as well as pop-culture, which in turn would come to influence societal structures at large and lay the ground for processes still visible today. Another unexpected factoid is just how intertwined t...
Ordinary Aesthetics
The impetus for this special issue comes less from conventional debates in philosophical aesthetics itself and instead from one area of recent work on ethics. More specifically, our turn to aesthetics has been inspired by a rich conversation that has emerged in recent years between anthropology and philosophy on the idea and importance of the ordin...
