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Oscar Bait
The Academy Awards – or "the Oscars" – have held a unique position in defining and enacting "prestige" for film industries and their publics. In evaluating ‘the best’ of film, they wield cultural influence over such cinema practices as consumption and evaluation, filmmaking aesthetics and narratives, and the discursive activity of Hollywood’s industrial agents and audiences. Oscar Bait: The Academy Awards & Cultural Prestige offers a comprehensive insight into how a film or star positions one’s self as a viable competitor worthy of such consecration in new media contexts. Based over three years of ‘Oscars seasons’ (2019–2021), rigorous analysis of film texts, awards telecas...
Male Mental Illness in Contemporary Culture
This book explores contemporary cultural narratives across film, television, and literature to illuminate the way male mental illness is positioned. It argues that fundamentally, the male experience is shaped differently due to the impact of gender expectations. Alongside this, narratives containing suicide also often fail to address the experiential, focusing on the why instead. This results in a limited approach that upholds hegemonic ideals, and with it, a need to rationalize or explain mental health and suicide, rather than engage with it more empathetically.
Cinematic Starchitecture
Cinematic Starchitecture explores how examples of famous architecture have circulated throughout cinema history across diverse genres. Building on the term "starchitecture" – coined in 1997 for dramatic, monumental structures designed to gain international attention and economic advantage – the authors demonstrate that a crucial part of an architectural structure’s iconic star status emerges through its engagement with (and codification by) the media, and with cinema in particular. This book explores how iconic architectural structures have performed a myriad of roles and functions that exceed buildings’ everyday uses or identities as aesthetic objects, location markers, or spatial settings, to show that countless films globally have featured famous buildings as inimitable components of narrative exposition, character development and/or identity construction. This volume will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of film studies, media studies, and architecture and architectural history, as well as those in the areas of media and cultural studies, history, popular culture, and urban geography.
The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy
Australia, and Australians, stood at a crossroads in October 2023. Before them lay a new and more accommodating way to practice democracy, a future in which First Nations people were given a representative voice in political decisions in this country. After months of a referendum campaign, struggling over foundational ideals and questions of national identity, misinformation, disinformation and racism, the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected in every Australian state and nationally. The referendum campaign was Australia’s first since the failed attempt at a republic in 1999. The political and media environment in which the referendum campaign would unfold was fundamentally changed. These ...
The Palgrave Handbook of Parenthood in Popular Culture
This Handbook showcases representations of parenthood in twenty-first-century popular culture, critically assessing how these representations shape, respond to, and redefine notions of families, as well as popular culture genres. Uniquely, the collection brings together motherhood, fatherhood, and parenthood studies. Chapters use intersectional approaches to illuminate LGBTQ+, racialized, Indigenous, and AI-generated as well as normative or ‘mainstream’ parental subjectivities and also address the topic of non-parenthood. The volume analyzes games, comics, social media, literature, film, television, and more. It is global in scope, signaled by the diverse cultural and geopolitical locations of the contributors and the texts they examine. Chapters are produced out of and/or are set within Canada, the United States, Britain, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Finland, India, Iran, China, Japan, South Korea, Jamaica, South Africa, and Australia.
Place and the Moving Image
Place and the Moving Image offers a rethinking of how experimental film, and especially essay film practices, engage with spatial knowledge and environmental awareness. At its heart is the concept of Moving Image Topography – a critical and artistic model for thinking with the moving image about the relation between technological forms and place structures, and how these shape our experience of environments, whether natural, built and lived. Responding to urgent questions in eco-media and artistic research, Elisabeth Brun argues that place is not merely a setting or backdrop, but a critical generative force in experimental film – a vital lens for understanding the eco-critical and episte...
Mainstreaming Palestine
A history of cinema’s role in popularizing the politics of Palestinian liberation For decades, Arab American activists and allies have used film, video, and multimedia to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause in the United States. In this detailed history of cinema’s role within the broader solidarity movement, Umayyah Cable analyzes the various strands of cinematic activism that have helped move Palestinian liberation politics from the periphery and into the mainstream. Cable charts the shifting discourse around Palestine as it has been shaped by grassroots film production and alternative media distribution networks as well as more conventional outlets. Ranging from the circulation...
