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Popular culture icons in contemporary American drama
- Title
- Popular culture icons in contemporary American drama / Konstantinos Blatanis.
- Author
- Blatanis, Konstantinos, 1966-
- Publication
- Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©2003.
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Details
- Description
- 195 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This study focuses on the extensive and multisided rapport contemporary American playwrights have established with popular culture in the course of the past four decades. Attention is given to individual cases that deal fruitfully with the most forceful cultural agent in postmodernity, the icon.
- The discussion addresses the task of theater images in a cultural field where the real is mistaken for its reflection, originality constantly played against seriality, at a moment when simulacra, clones, and emulations of selves and texts become firmly established as the norm. The accommodation of pop icons on stage and the results this framing yields constitute this work's primary interests and aims."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-191) and index.
- Contents
- Hollywood and Rock Mythologies -- Parody, Iconoclasm, and Deconstruction of Popular Icons -- Placement/Displacement of Self and Text on Screen -- Sublime and Macabre Rock Dreams -- Television -- Exposing the Discourse of Tele-Flow -- Thinking the Subject as a Real Tele-Text -- Considering the Tele-Icon in Mediating the Private/Public (Con) Fusion -- Reviewing the Role of Tele-Flow in a Social Space of Implosive Anesthesia -- Pulp Fiction Iconography -- Consuming Pulp Fiction Maps: A Trip in Hyperreality -- Simulating Dime-Literature Outlaws: An Act of Violating Violence -- Reclaiming Mythic Desperadoes: An Original Map of the Present Moment -- Uniting Superheroes and Archvillains: A Route towards "the Democracy of Life" -- Images of the West -- Cowboy--The Simulacrum of a Myth: The Course of Writing/Erasing History -- Cowboy Dreams: Pop Icons and the Act of (Re) Locating Cultural Geographies -- The West: The Meeting Point of Self and Other/the Site of Writing -- The West: The Open Horizon of a Life-Affirming Discourse.
- ISBN
- 0838640087
- 9780838640081
- LCCN
- 2003005056
- OCLC
- ocm51837903
- 51837903
- SCSB-1313293
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library