Woo, Benjamin
Getting a Life
- ISBN 13:
- 9780773552845
- author:
- Woo, Benjamin
- format:
- HardBack
- publisher:
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2018
- Pages:
- 280
- Dimensions:
- 23.11 x 16.26 x 2.79 centimetres
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Benjamin Woo's Getting a Life offers a fresh perspective on geek culture, shifting the focus from its popular representations to the everyday lives of its participants.
The author draws on fieldwork in comic book shops, game stores, and conventions, as well as in-depth interviews with ordinary members of these communities, to explore how geek culture is a set of interconnected social practices associated with popular media.
Woo argues that typical depictions of mass-mediated entertainment are flawed because they fail to account for the conversations, relationships, communities, and identities created by engaging with the products of mass culture. This book combines engaging interview material with lucid interpretation and a clear, interdisciplinary framework, making it an accessible introduction to this contemporary subculture and an exploration of its ethical possibilities.
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