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“debra ferreday”

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  • New Queer Television

    From Marginalization to Mainstreamification

    Edited by Thomas Brassington, Debra Ferreday, Dany Girard ...
    Though queer critics and queer theory tend to frame queer identities as marginal, this edited volume draws attention to a dynamic field in which a wide variety of queer identities can be put on display and consumed by audiences. Cementing a foundational understanding of queerness that is at odds with current shifts in media production, contributors present a broad variety of queer identities from ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Hope and Feminist Theory

    Edited by Rebecca Coleman, Debra Ferreday ...
    Hope is central to marginal politics which speak of desires for equality or simply for a better life. Feminism might be characterised as a politics of hope, a movement underpinned by a utopian drive for equality. This version of hope has been used, for example in Barack Obama’s phrase ‘the audacity of hope’ – a mobilisation of an affirmative politics which nevertheless implies that we are living ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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    An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human

    by Tom Boellstorff, Tom Boellstorff ...
    Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, find friendship, fall in love--the possibilities are ... Read more

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  • A Different Kind of Ethnography

    Imaginative Practices and Creative Methodologies

    Edited by Dara Culhane, Denielle Elliott ...
    Building on the sensory ethnographic trend in contemporary sociocultural anthropology, this collection introduces the idea of a different kind of ethnography: an imaginative and creative approach to anthropological inquiry that is collaborative, open-ended, embodied, affective, and experimental. The authors treat ethnography as a methodology that includes the whole process of ethnography, from ... Read more

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  • The Fan Fiction Studies Reader

    Edited by Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse ...
    An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined some of its enduring questions. Editors Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse provide cogent ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Video Games Have Always Been Queer

    by Bo Ruberg ...
    Series Book 16 - Postmillennial Pop
    Argues for the queer potential of video gamesWhile popular discussions about queerness in video games often focus on big-name, mainstream games that feature LGBTQ characters, like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, Bonnie Ruberg pushes the concept of queerness in games beyond a matter of representation, exploring how video games can be played, interpreted, and designed queerly, whether or not they include ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Queer Game Studies

    Edited by Bonnie Ruberg, Adrienne Shaw ...
    Video games have developed into a rich, growing field at many top universities, but they have rarely been considered from a queer perspective. Immersion in new worlds, video games seem to offer the perfect opportunity to explore the alterity that queer culture longs for, but often sexism and discrimination in gamer culture steal the spotlight. Queer Game Studies provides a welcome corrective, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Gender and Media

    Representing, Producing, Consuming

    by Tonny Krijnen, Sofie Van Bauwel ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    This thoroughly revised second edition provides a critical overview of the contemporary debates and discussions surrounding gender and mediated communication.The book is divided into three parts: representing, producing, and consuming, with each section made up of three chapters. The first chapter of each section attempts to answer the most basic questions: ‘Who is represented?’, ‘Who produces ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Bad Environmentalism

    Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

    by Nicole Seymour ...
    Traces a tradition of ironic and irreverent environmentalism, asking us to rethink the movement’s reputation for gloom and doomActivists today strive to educate the public about climate change, but sociologists have found that the more we know about alarming issues, the less likely we are to act. Meanwhile, environmentalists have acquired a reputation as gloom-and-doom killjoys. Bad ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Queer Cinema in the World

    by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt ...
    Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the paradox of the queer popular, or the deviant ecologies of the queer pastoral, Schoonover and Galt ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television

    by Jess King ...
    Breaking down the traditional structures of screenplays in an innovative and progressive way, while also investigating the ways in which screenplays have been traditionally told, this book interrogates how screenplays can be written to reflect the diverse life experiences of real people.Author Jess King explores how existing paradigms of screenplays often exclude the very people watching films and ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Framing Fan Fiction

    Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities

    by Kristina Busse ...
    Gathering some of Kristina Busse’s essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual ... Read more

    $32.39 USD