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Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
"Building on the tradition of social commentators such as
Gilbert Seldes, Robert Warshow, and Susan Sontag, Henry Jenkins
brings his outstanding insight and compassionate counsel to
contemporary cultural phenomena. Here not only media, but affect,
matters. A delightful and helpful collection on popular
pleasures."
--Janet Staiger, author of "Media Reception Studies"
aOffers a lively, diligently researched, and well-written
account of one scholaras engagement with the emotional punch of
media.a--"PsycCRITIQUES"
Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the
emotional highpoint of their acts--a final moment of peak spectacle
following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most
critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic
was celebrated by other writers for its vitality, its liveliness,
and its playfulness.
The Wow Climax follows in the path of this more laudatory
tradition, drawing out the range of emotions in popular culture and
mapping what we might call an aesthetic of immediacy. It pulls
together a spirited range of work from Henry Jenkins, one of our
most astute media scholars, that spans different media (film,
television, literature, comics, games), genres (slapstick,
melodrama, horror, exploitation cinema), and emotional reactions
(shock, laughter, sentimentality). Whether highlighting the
sentimentality at the heart of the Lassie franchise, examining the
emotional experiences created by horror filmmakers like Wes Craven
and David Cronenberg and avant garde artist Matthew Barney, or
discussing the emerging aesthetics of videogames, these essays get
to the heart of what gives popular culture its emotional
impact.
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