In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century popular culture, including race, technology, gender, media, and politics. Its scope and coverage of a wide range of popular issues make this book a powerful introduction to popular culture studies in the contemporary moment.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Into the Midst of Things
James Braxton Peterson
Part I: Head Matter: The Mind and the Mask
Chapter 1: An Empire State of Mind
Imani Perry
Chapter 2: Consolidating a Hip Hop Nation: Revisiting the Videotaped Police Beating of Rodney King, 20 Years Later
Tanji Gilliam
Chapter 3: Head on Straight, Mask on Crooked: MF DOOM and the Trope of the Mask
Nicholas James
Chapter 4: The Superhero Aesthetics in Hip Hop Culture
Will Boone
Part II: Visual Matter
Chapter 5: I Have a Meme: Photography, Memory, and Digital Commemorations of the March on Washington
Paul M. Farber
Chapter 6: How Deep? Skin Deep? A Case Study on Shameful National Orientations
Emily Churilla
Chapter 7: Faggoty/White/Uniform: Gays in the Military and A Few Good Men
Scott St. Pierre
Part III: Global Flows
Chapter 8: Selected Poems
Suheir Hammad
Chapter 9: The Communal Womb in Haile Gerima's Sankofa
Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson
Chapter 10: South Asian Hip Hop Wannabes and the Chavs Who Love Them: The Blackening of British Culture in Gautam Malkani's Londonstani
Delores B. Phillips
Chapter 11: "A True and Faithful Account of Mr. Ota Benga the Pygmy," written by M. Berman, Zookeeper, a short story
Adam Mansbach
Part IV: Culture of Personality
Chapter 12: Richard Pryor's Pain: From Stand-Up Comedy to Hollywood Film
Sean Springer
Chapter 13: You Are Now Tuned Into the . . . Greatest: Jay-Z and the Spectacle of the Cool
Wilfredo Gomez
Chapter 14: Disassembling the "Matrix of Domination": Janelle Monae's Transformative Vision
Carrie Walker
Chapter 15: "Dreams of the Drum": A Keynote Address
Michael Eric Dyson
Bibliography
Sound Recordings
About the Contributors
Index
