Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate a ban on technology or a refusal to acknowledge its affordances but work instead to highlight the ability of fictional characters to move from high tech settings to low tech ones. By repurposing everyday materials, characters model the process of reusing and upcycling existing materials in innovative ways. In studying examples such as Pitch Perfect, Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Get Out, the book aims to make theories surrounding materiality apparent within popular culture and to help today's readers reconsider stereotypes of the young people they encounter on a daily basis.
| ISBN: | 9780367663711 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2020 |
| Author: | K Shannon Howard |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Media studies: TV and society Film history, theory or criticism Sociology History |
Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate a ban on technology or a refusal to acknowledge its affordances but work instead to highlight the ability of fictional characters to move from high tech settings to low tech ones. By repurposing everyday materials, characters model the process of reusing and upcycling existing materials in innovative ways. In studying examples such as Pitch Perfect, Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Get Out, the book aims to make theories surrounding materiality apparent within popular culture and to help today's readers reconsider stereotypes of the young people they encounter on a daily basis.
Unplugging Popular Culture features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies: TV and society, Film history, theory or criticism, Sociology, History
Unplugging Popular Culture is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Unplugging Popular Culture was written by K Shannon Howard and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Unplugging Popular Culture has 166 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
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