TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piipponen,Maarit
AU  - Salmela,Markku
TI  - Topographies of popular culture
SN  - 9781443899161
AV  - HM621 .T67 2016eb
U1  - 306 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Space in literature
KW  - East and West in literature
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - Culture populaire
KW  - Espace dans la littérature
KW  - Orient et Occident dans la littérature
KW  - popular culture
KW  - aat
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Imagining popular culture spatially / Maarit Piipponen and Markku Salmela -- The geopolitical aesthetic of Middle-Earth : Tolkien, cinema and literary cartography / Robert T. Tally Jr. -- Anti-colonial discourses in Joe Sacco's Palestine : making space for the losers of history / Ranthild Salzer --Beyond the couch gag : reading the suburb and its consumerist discontents / Markku Salmela -- Post-Soviet cultural space and the epistemology of consumption in Viktor Pelevin's Empire V / Saara Ratilainen -- Conquering oceans on a second-hand Ship of Fools : the East German deep-sea fishing vessel as heterotopia / Withold Bonner -- Spectral island topographies : geology, cultural sedimentation and the haunted East-West relations in Letters from Iwo Jima and Skyfall / Johannes Riquet --Topographies of poverty : imagining Calcutta in City of Joy / Raita Merivirta -- The formation of cultural topographies and popular seriality : the cases of Sherlock Holmes / Birgit Neumann and Jan Rupp -- Mario Puzo's The godfather : immigrants' home country reterritorialised in the US / Irina Kabanova -- Puritans, sheiks, and cowboys : remasculinisation and the American West in Earl Derr Biggers's The Chinese Parrot / Maarit Piipponen
N2  - Topographies of Popular Culture departs from the deceptively simple notion that popular culture always takes place somewhere. By studying the spatial and topographic imaginations at work in popular culture, the book identifies and illustrates several specific tendencies that deserve increased attention in studies of the popular. In combining the study of popular texts with a broad variety of geographical contexts, the volume presents a global and cross-cultural approach to popular culture's topographies. In part, Topographies of Popular Culture takes its cue from recent theorisations of spatia
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