Popular stories and promised lands : fan cultures and symbolic pilgrimages / Roger C. Aden.
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TextSeries: Studies in rhetoric and communicationPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 290 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 058509702X
- 9780585097022
- 9780817391256
- 0817391258
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects -- United States
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects
- Fans (Persons) -- United States -- Psychology
- Imaginary places in mass media
- Escape (Psychology) -- United States
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Escape (Psychology)
- Fans (Persons) -- Psychology
- Imaginary places in mass media
- Mass media -- Social aspects
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Psychological aspects
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects
- Popular culture
- United States
- 1900-1999
- 306/.0973 21
- E169.12 .A224 1999eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-283) and index.
Introduction: I'm a Big Fan: Popular Stories, Habitus, and Places That Matter -- Theoretical Development -- The Search for Promised Lands: Dominant Visions of Sacred Places in U.S. Culture -- The Foundations of Symbolic Pilgrimage: Theoretical Conversations About Places That Matter -- Symbolic Pilgrimages: Experiencing Popular Stories as Purposeful, Imaginary-Yet-Real Journeys -- Exiled in Cubeville, Striving for Nerdvana: Dilbert as a Critique of Phony Meritocracy -- Transforming the Panopticon Into the Funhouse: Negotiating Disorientation in The X-Files -- Playing in a Perfect Place: Sports Illustrated and an American Elysian Field -- Integrating Self and Community as a Means of Finding Homes: The Shift from Consumerism to Altruistic Producerism in Field of Dreams -- Conclusion: The Return Home.
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