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This book offers an in-depth analysis of Janelle Monae's Dirty
Computer, an Afrofuturist project that appeared simultaneously as a
concept album and a visual album or "emotion picture" in spring
2018. In the previous decade, Janelle Monae has developed into a
global media personality who effortlessly unites speculative
world-building with social and political activism. Across the
intersecting album and film that together make up Dirty Computer,
Monae brings together the science-fictional themes that informed
her previous work, resulting in a powerfully focused artistic and
political statement. While the music on the album can be enjoyed as
an accessible collection of pop tracks, the accompanying film,
music videos, and media paratexts add layers of meaning that
combine speculative world-building with anti-racist activism. This
unique convergence of energies, ideas, and media platforms has made
Dirty Computer a new classic of Afrofuturist science fiction.
Whether one describes them as sequential art, graphic narratives or
graphic novels, comics have become a vital part of contemporary
culture. Their range of expression contains a tremendous variety of
forms, genres and modes from high to low, from serial entertainment
for children to complex works of art. This has led to a growing
interest in comics as a field of scholarly analysis, as comics
studies has established itself as a major branch of criticism. This
handbook combines a systematic survey of theories and concepts
developed in the field alongside an overview of the most important
contexts and themes and a wealth of close readings of seminal works
and authors. It will prove to be an indispensable handbook for a
large readership, ranging from researchers and instructors to
students and anyone else with a general interest in this
fascinating medium.
From Tolkien to Star Trek, from Game of Thrones to Battlestar
Galactica, and from The Walking Dead to Janelle Monae's
Afrofuturist concept albums, transmedia world-building offers us
complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book
examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer tools
for anticapitalist theory and practice. Building on Hardt and
Negri's theory of global capitalism, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and
Politics shows how transmedia world-building has the potential of
offering more than a momentary escape from capitalist realism in
the age of media convergence and participatory culture. The book
features eight fantastic storyworlds that offer vivid illustrations
of global capitalism's contradictory logic. Approaching transmedia
world-building both as a cultural form and as a political economy,
it demonstrates the limitations inherent in fandom and fan culture,
which is increasingly absorbed as a form of immaterial labor. But
at the same time, the book also explores the productive ways in
which fantastic storyworlds contain a radical energy that can give
us new ways of thinking about politics, popular culture, and
anticapitalism.
From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking
Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer us complex and
immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the
ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable tools for
anticapitalist theory and practice. Building on Hardt and Negri's
concept of Empire as a way of understanding globalization, Science
Fiction, Fantasy, and Politics shows how popular fantastic fiction
has the potential of offering more than a momentary escape from
capitalist realism in the age of media convergence and
participatory culture. The book approaches fantastic world-building
as an ideologically ambiguous way of imagining alternatives to
global capitalism. By approaching transmedia world-building both as
a narrative form and as a growing industry derived from fan
culture, it shows on the one hand the limitations inherent in the
political economy of popular genre fiction. But at the same time,
it also explores the productive ways in which fantastic storyworlds
contain a radical energy that can give us new ways of thinking
about politics, popular culture, and anticapitalism.
Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist.
Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android.
Dirty Computer.  Janelle Monáe is all these things and
more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in
the twenty-first century. This provocative new study explores how
Monáe’s work has connected different media platforms to
strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics.
It considers not only Monáe’s groundbreaking albums The
ArchAndroid, The Electric Lady, and Dirty Computer, but
also Monáe’s work as an actress in such films as Hidden
Figures and Antebellum, as well as her soundtrack
appearances in socially-engaged projects ranging from I May
Destroy You to Us. Examining Monáe as a cultural icon
whose work is profoundly intersectional, this book maps how she is
actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and
capitalism. Tracing Monáe’s performances of joy, desire, pain,
and hope across a wide range of media forms, it shows how she
imagines Afrofuturist, posthumanist, and postcapitalist utopias,
while remaining grounded in the realities of being a Black woman in
a white-dominated industry. This is an exciting introduction to an
audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about
identity, desire, and power.
These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels,
beginning with the early development of these media. The essays
also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and
terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and
comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and
nonfiction. By addressing the topic from a wide range of
perspectives, the book offers readers a nuanced and comprehensive
picture of current scholarship in the subject area.
Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist.
Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android.
Dirty Computer.  Janelle Monáe is all these things and
more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in
the twenty-first century. This provocative new study explores how
Monáe’s work has connected different media platforms to
strengthen and enhance new movements in art, theory, and politics.
It considers not only Monáe’s groundbreaking albums The
ArchAndroid, The Electric Lady, and Dirty Computer, but
also Monáe’s work as an actress in such films as Hidden
Figures and Antebellum, as well as her soundtrack
appearances in socially-engaged projects ranging from I May
Destroy You to Us. Examining Monáe as a cultural icon
whose work is profoundly intersectional, this book maps how she is
actively reshaping discourses around race, gender, sexuality, and
capitalism. Tracing Monáe’s performances of joy, desire, pain,
and hope across a wide range of media forms, it shows how she
imagines Afrofuturist, posthumanist, and postcapitalist utopias,
while remaining grounded in the realities of being a Black woman in
a white-dominated industry. This is an exciting introduction to an
audacious innovator whose work offers us fresh ways to talk about
identity, desire, and power.
In the same way that Stallone and Schwarzenegger played film heroes
who came to embody the values of Ronald Reagans aggressive
conservative agenda in the 1980s, the 21st-century film narratives
of Batman, Spider-Man and Superman reflect the policies of the Bush
Doctrine after 9/11. This book offers a groundbreaking study of the
relationship that exists between post-9/11 American politics and
the contemporary superhero movie phenomenon. No other Hollywood
subgenre was as consistently popular during the George W. Bush
presidency, as films such as Spider-Man, Superman Returns, Iron
Man, and The Dark Knight embodied the key contradictions that
inform the cultural and political life of the post-9/11 years. By
combining in-depth analyses of numerous major superhero films from
this era with astute readings of contemporary critical theory, this
book offers accessible and academically potent insight into the
complex interplay between politics, ideology, and entertainment in
the 21st century.
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