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OverviewMedia, Masculinities, and the Machine identifies a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture - the contemporary male fantasy of 'suiting up' and pushing technology to its limits. The authors deconstruct this fantasy using two in-depth studies from American, British and global media: the social imagining of hi-tech in the long-running Transformers franchise and global Formula One motorsport, with links to numerous other areas of contemporary culture. By drawing on non-representational theory and the latest theories of affect while employing the method of autoethnography to explore what boys and men ‘want' and say, the book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of contemporary cultural attachments. The book provides informative accounts of two instances united by their apparent gender focus and by their interest in ways of imagining high-tech. Tracking their theme through TV, cinema, toys, magazines, merchandising, and the culture of the gadget, the authors raise important questions about mediated masculinities today and propose a new theoretical framework for uncovering what is going on. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Professor, PhD Dan Fleming , Dr. Damion SturmPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.532kg ISBN: 9781441115546ISBN 10: 1441115544 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 28 April 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsForeword Chapter 1: The Android Imaginaire (Jacques, Move Your Body) Chapter 2: Intensities and Affective Labor Chapter 3: The Scene of Autoaffection Chapter 4: Containment 1: the Strategy-Intensity Field Chapter 5: Containment 2: the Companionship of Things Chapter 6: Containment 3: Boys' Toys Chapter 7: Masculinities, Vitality and the Machine Afterwords Glossary Bibliography IndexReviewsFleming and Sturm have achieved a rare success in academic writing, by producing a book that is both important in its arguments and engaging in its style of writing and presentation. This book focuses on the complex relationship between humans, and more specifically men, and machines, but through their dual treatise of Transformers toys and Formula One racing, they provide insights that will have resonance with a wide variety of disciplines and subjects, including the study of masculinity, fandom, play, everyday life, material culture, technology, sport, social theory and media. <p> Garry Crawford, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology, University of Salford Like a Formula 1 driver negotiating a hairpin turn through the sheer downforce of acceleration, Fleming and Sturm stick fast to their objects of analysis and don't let go. Linking affective resonances and processual materialities with hyper-reflexive riffings on methods, theories, fans and their attachments, this book continually assembles and then reassembles itself into new configurations of meaning and intensity. This is a book not only about machines but a machinic book! Gregory J. Seigworth, co-editor of The Affect Theory Reader Like a Formula 1 driver negotiating a hairpin turn through the sheer downforce of acceleration, Fleming and Sturm stick fast to their objects of analysis and don't let go. Linking affective resonances and processual materialities with hyper-reflexive riffings on methods, theories, fans and their attachments, this book continually assembles and then reassembles itself into new configurations of meaning and intensity. This is a book not only about machines but a machinic book! <p> Gregory J. Seigworth, co-editor of The Affect Theory Reader Author InformationDan Fleming is Professor of Screen & Media Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Damion Sturm is a Teaching Fellow for Screen & Media Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |