Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure, Brassett Jamie, Reynolds Richard

Автор: Amaya Hector
Название: Citizenship Excess
ISBN: 0814724132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814724132
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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“Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.”
—Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies and author of Latina/os
Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship.
Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism.

Автор: Patrizia Calefato
Название: Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
ISBN: 0857853309 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857853301
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession.

Автор: Karlsen
Название: A World of Excesses
ISBN: 1138256900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138256903
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book explores gaming culture, focusing on competent players and excessive use. Addressing the contested question of whether addiction is possible in relation to computer games - specifically online gaming - A World of Excesses demonstrates that excessive playing does not necessarily have detrimental effects, and that there are important contextual elements that influence what consequences playing has for the players. Based on new empirical studies, including in-depth interviews and virtual ethnography, and drawing on material from international game related sites, this book examines the reasons for which gaming can occupy such a central place in people's lives, to the point of excess. As such, it will be of interest to sociologists and psychologists working in the fields of cultural and media studies, the sociology of leisure, information technology and addiction.

Автор: Patrizia Calefato
Название: Luxury: Fashion, Lifestyle and Excess
ISBN: 0857853317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857853318
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Luxury has been both celebrated and condemned throughout history right up to the present day. This groundbreaking text examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession. Using approaches from cultural studies, semiotic research and aesthetics, Luxury presents a wide range of case studies including urban space and new technologies, travel, interior design, cars, fashion ads and jewellery to explore what luxury represents, and why, in the contemporary world. The book will be essential reading for students and scholars across a range of fashion studies, cultural studies and sociology, and anyone interested in the power and allure of luxury today.

Автор: Amaya Hector
Название: Citizenship Excess: Latino/As, Media, and the Nation
ISBN: 0814708455 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780814708453
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Цена: 77790.00 T
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“Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.”
—Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the International Encyclopedia of Media Studies and author of Latina/os
Drawing on contemporary conflicts between Latino/as and anti-immigrant forces, Citizenship Excess illustrates the limitations of liberalism as expressed through U.S. media channels. Inspired by Latin American critical scholarship on the “coloniality of power,” Amaya demonstrates that nativists use the privileges associated with citizenship to accumulate power. That power is deployed to aggressively shape politics, culture, and the law, effectively undermining Latino/as who are marked by the ethno-racial and linguistic difference that nativists love to hate. Yet these social characteristics present crucial challenges to the political, legal, and cultural practices that define citizenship.
Amaya examines the role of ethnicity and language in shaping the mediated public sphere through cases ranging from the participation of Latino/as in the Iraqi war and pro-immigration reform marches to labor laws restricting Latino/a participation in English-language media and news coverage of undocumented immigrant detention centers. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that the evolution of the idea of citizenship in the United States and the political and cultural practices that define it are intricately intertwined with nativism.

Автор: Kuldova Tereza, Varghese Mathew A.
Название: Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia
ISBN: 3319837842 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319837840
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 93160.00 T
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Описание: This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka.

Автор: Straten-McSparran Rebecca Ver
Название: Lars von Trier`s Cinema: Excess, Evil, and the Prophetic Voice
ISBN: 0367766566 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367766566
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 148010.00 T
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Описание: This book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trier`s cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative.

Автор: Horn Katrin
Название: Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess
ISBN: 3319878859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319878850
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women`s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga.

Автор: Rollefson J. Griffith
Название: Critical Excess: Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age
ISBN: 0472054872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780472054879
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 23100.00 T
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Описание: Jay-Z and Kanye West’s 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed “luxury rap” album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture.  Critical Excess performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining how the album alternately imagines and critiques the mutually reinforcing ideas of Europe, nobility, old money, art, and their standard bearer, whiteness. Reading the album alongside Black critical theory and work on the prophetic nature of music, Rollefson argues that through their performance of black excellence, opulence, and decadence, Jay-Z and Kanye West poured gas on the white resentment of the Obama presidency—a resentment that would ultimately spill over into public life, make audible the dog whistling of the Far Right, and embolden white supremacists to come out from under their rocks.  Ultimately, Rollefson argues, Jay-Z and Kanye West’s performance of what Rollefson calls “critical excess” on this album exceeds the limits of conspicuous consumption and heralds the final stage of late capitalism—“the New Gilded Age.” 

Автор: Karlsen Faltin
Название: World of Excesses
ISBN: 1409427633 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409427636
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Addressing the contested question of whether addiction is possible in relation to computer games - specifically online gaming - A World of Excesses demonstrates that excessive playing does not necessarily have detrimental effects, and that there are important contextual elements that influence what consequences playing has for the players.

Автор: Alexus McLeod
Название: The Philosophical Thought of Wang Chong
ISBN: 3319952900 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319952901
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book is a study of the methodological, metaphysical, and epistemological work of the Eastern Han Dynasty period scholar Wang Chong. It presents Wang’s philosophical thought as a unique and syncretic culmination of a number of ideas developed in earlier Han and Warring States philosophy. Wang’s philosophical methodology and his theories of truth, knowledge, and will and determinism offer solutions to a number of problems in the early Chinese tradition. His views also have much to offer contemporary philosophy, suggesting new ways of thinking about familiar problems. While Wang is best known as a critic and skeptic, Alexus McLeod argues that these aspects of his thought form only a part of a larger positive project, aimed at discerning truth in a variety of senses.

Автор: Raghavendra, Mk
Название: Philosophical issues in indian cinema
ISBN: 0367361825 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367361822
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book interrogates the vocabulary used in theorizing about Indian cinema to reach into the deeper cultural meanings of philosophies and traditions which it derives its influences from. It re-examines terms and concepts used in film criticism and contextualises them within the aesthetics, poetics, and politics of Indian cinema..