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The age of promiscuity : narrative and mythological meme mutations in contemporary cinema and popular culture
- Title
- The age of promiscuity : narrative and mythological meme mutations in contemporary cinema and popular culture / Doru Pop.
- Author
- Pop, Doru
- Publication
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | MFL 19-545 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre |
Details
- Description
- x, 435 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "This book examines cultural recycling in cinematic representations. Using an interdisciplinary approach drawn from cultural studies, film studies, visual culture, and the history of ideas , Doru Pop explains the practices of reinterpreting myths and narratives and discusses the overall cultural impact of recent popular movies on contemporary collective imaginaries"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-426) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Nothing new in the Western mind? -- The transmutation of ancient heroes and the re-appropriation of myths in contemporary cinema -- From centauresque to incongruously burlesque : retrofitting and infantilizing mythologies -- Mythological meme mutations : the puerile patriarchs of an infantilized god -- Avatars, surrogate identities, and other post-human transformations -- Spare-parts heroes, recycled narratives, reused visualities, and other recuperated histories -- Modern monsters, parasitical stories and narrative viruses -- Desecration of cinematic bodies and zombie semiotics -- Conclusion. Excursus or a final walk into the desert of significations.
- Call Number
- MFL 19-545
- ISBN
- 9781498580601
- 1498580602
- LCCN
- 2018038521
- OCLC
- 1082292657
- Author
- Pop, Doru, author.
- Title
- The age of promiscuity : narrative and mythological meme mutations in contemporary cinema and popular culture / Doru Pop.
- Publisher
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-426) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Pop, Doru, author. Age of promiscuity Lanham : Lexington Books, [2018] 9781498580618 (DLC) 2019001356
- Research Call Number
- MFL 19-545