The remarkable cultural vitality of Star Wars and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, Star Wars uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of Star Wars to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.
{"title":"Star wars: The hidden empire","authors":"Azzan Yadin-Israel","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13359","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The remarkable cultural vitality of <i>Star Wars</i> and the subsequent franchise is due in part to the way in which it simultaneously builds on and bolsters the Gramscian “common sense” that America is not an empire. Like the Western, <i>Star Wars</i> uses apolitical individualism to portray political actions as the result of individuals' search for freedom, while representing the galaxy as home to a single, evil Empire. These narrative mechanisms, invite the viewers of <i>Star Wars</i> to think of the United States as a ragtag group of fighters battling an oppressive empire, but not itself an empire.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141688362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article investigates online fan video remixes that combine footage from the televisual adaptation of the Chinese classic The Romance of Three Kingdoms, set in ancient China, with soundtracks from the American science fiction film Inception (2010) and the magical fantasy Pirates of the Caribbean (2011). Analyzing the audio-visual aesthetics of these videos, I propose a reversal of Henry Jenkins's “additive comprehension” framework, which suggests that fan works aim to interpret and complete the original story-verse. Instead, I argue these videos reverse the process of interpretation through temporal–spatial transportation and corporeal transfiguration with false continuity editing, acousmatic aesthetics, and gravitational disorientation.
本文研究了在线粉丝视频混音作品，这些作品将中国古典名著《三国演义》（以中国古代为背景）的电视改编片段与美国科幻电影《盗梦空间》（Inception，2010 年）和魔幻奇幻电影《加勒比海盗》（Pirates of the Caribbean，2011 年）的配乐结合在一起。通过分析这些视频的视听美学，我提出了对亨利-詹金斯（Henry Jenkins）的 "添加式理解 "框架的颠覆。相反，我认为这些视频通过虚假的连续性剪辑、声学美学和重力迷失，实现了时空转移和肉体变形，从而扭转了诠释过程。
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{"title":"Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices By Christa Salamandra, Nour Halabi (Ed.), New York: Routledge. 2023. pp. 190. $160.00. (hardcover)","authors":"Muhammad Asad Latif","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13351","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141966726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bootlegging the airwaves: Alternative histories of radio and television distribution By Eleanor Patterson, Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2024. pp. 192. $28.00 (paperback)","authors":"Christine F. Smith","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The drinking curriculum: A cultural history of childhood and alcohol By Elizabeth A. Marshall, New York: Fordham University Press. 2024. pp. 135. $25.00 (paperback)","authors":"Aisha Manus","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13347","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The othering of women in silent film: Cultural, historical, and literary contexts By Barbara Tepa Lupack, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2024. 344 pp. $120.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Heather Buchanan","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13348","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13348","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141125508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the posthuman: Perspectives on the non-human in literature and culture By Grant Hamilton and Carolyn Lau (Eds.), Routledge: New York. 2024. p. 346. £155.00 (hardcover)","authors":"Yuwei Huang, Xiaohui Liang","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13340","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141003637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mapping the stars: Celebrity, metonymy, and the networked politics of identity By Claire Sisco King, Athens, OH: Ohio State University Press. 2023. pp. 264. $32.95 (paperback)","authors":"Gabrielle Stecher","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13339","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpcu.13339","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141011318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women's American football: Breaking barriers on and off the gridiron By Russ Crawford, Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 2022. pp. 379. $34.95 (hardcover)","authors":"Nichole Bogarosh","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article claims that the recent trend in television and web streaming drama series to feature segments shot in the style of a multi-camera sitcom, a phenomenon which is termed “embedded sitcom,” reflects the current popularity of nostalgia in popular culture. Situating the sitcom in the context of television history and theories of nostalgia, the article argues that embedded sitcom reveals the nostalgic quality of the sitcom genre as well as of the medium of television, and negotiates a larger cultural conflict between the lucrative potency of nostalgia for past media formats and a wariness of nostalgia as politically regressive.
{"title":"Sitcom as refuge, sitcom as prison: Nostalgia, anti-nostalgia, and the embedded multi-camera sitcom in WandaVision and Kevin Can F**k Himself","authors":"Reto Winckler","doi":"10.1111/jpcu.13337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.13337","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article claims that the recent trend in television and web streaming drama series to feature segments shot in the style of a multi-camera sitcom, a phenomenon which is termed “embedded sitcom,” reflects the current popularity of nostalgia in popular culture. Situating the sitcom in the context of television history and theories of nostalgia, the article argues that embedded sitcom reveals the nostalgic quality of the sitcom genre as well as of the medium of television, and negotiates a larger cultural conflict between the lucrative potency of nostalgia for past media formats and a wariness of nostalgia as politically regressive.</p>","PeriodicalId":46552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Popular Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpcu.13337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141968185","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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