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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “steven a benko”
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  • Better Living through TV

    Contemporary TV and Moral Identity Formation

    de Steven A. Benko, Jill B. Delston, John Hillman, Douglas L. Howard, Matt Hummel, Alisa Johnson, Eleanor Jones, Dutton Kearney, Leigh Kellmann Kolb, Matilde Accurso Liotta0, Denis Newiak1, Douglas Rasmussen2, James Rocha3, James Shelton4, Martin Shuster5, Martina Vanzo6, H. Peter Steeves7 ...
    Watching television need not be a passive activity or simply for entertainment purposes. Television can be the site of important identity work and moral reflection. Audiences can learn about themselves, what matters to them, and how to relate to others by thinking about the implicit and explicit moral messages in the shows they watch. Better Living through TV: Contemporary TV and Moral Identity ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Ethics in Comedy

    Essays on Crossing the Line

    Edición de Steven A. Benko ...
    Series series Ethics and Culture
    All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line" can make people feel excluded and humiliated. This collection of new essays addresses possible ways that moral and ethical lines can be drawn around ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Good Place and Philosophy

    Edición de Steven A. Benko, Andrew Pavelich ...
    Series Libro 130 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Good Place is a fantasy-comedy TV show about the afterlife. Eleanor dies and finds herself in the Good Place, which she understands must be mistake, since she has been anything but good. In the surprise twist ending to Season One, it is revealed that this is really the Bad Place, but the demon who planned it was frustrated, because the characters didn’t torture each other mentally as planned, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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  • Down Girl

    The Logic of Misogyny

    de Kate Manne ...
    Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Why Love Hurts

    A Sociological Explanation

    de Eva Illouz ...
    Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways ... Leer más

    $14.00 USD

  • The Promise of Happiness

    de Sara Ahmed ...
    The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • A Good Book, In Theory

    Making Sense Through Inquiry, Second Edition

    de Alan Sears, James Cairns ...
    This brief and engagingly written book provides a unique introduction to the process of social inquiry and the theoretical and methodological frameworks that support that inquiry, offering a strong foundation in critical thinking that is rooted in the social sciences but maintains relevance across the disciplines. ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Speech Communities

    de Marcyliena H. Morgan ...
    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Celebrity and Power

    Fame in Contemporary Culture

    de P. David Marshall ...
    Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    de Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Language and Gender

    de Penelope_Eckert, Sally_McConnell-Ginet ...
    Language and Gender is an introduction to the study of the relation between gender and language use, written by two leading experts in the field. This new edition, thoroughly updated and restructured, brings out more strongly an emphasis on practice and change, while retaining the broad scope of its predecessor and its accessible introductions which explain the key concepts in a non-technical way. ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Comedy Studies Reader

    Edición de Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD