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Alexander Riley - Impure Play - 9780739129319 - V9780739129319
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Impure Play

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Description for Impure Play Hardback. This is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. The book rereads disparaged and vilified cultural objects ranging from gangsta rap and death metal to violent video games, using cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and the tragic as the interpretive lens. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 239 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Impure Play is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. Alexander Riley harnesses a range of cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and tragedy in order to make sense of the emergence of realms of popular culture where violence and death have a prominent role. The range of popular cultural spheres explored is wide. Topics described in various chapters include gangsta rap and death metal music, popular fiction called racist and pornographic by some critics, violent video games, sports scandals involving sex and violence, and online sites specializing in images of violence and death. ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739129319
SKU
V9780739129319
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Alexander Riley
Alexander Riley is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bucknell University.

Reviews for Impure Play
Imagine a conversation between Émile Durkheim, Tupac Shakur, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Alexander Riley is both an interlocutor and amanuensis, articulating and documenting the cognitive pyrotechnics that might have occurred. Riley's essays on the banality of transgression and the adulteration of moral culture reminds us that there is no longer synonymy between the profane and the impure.
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