Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media 1st Edition

Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319657431,9783319657448,3319657437,3319657445

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319657445
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783319657448
• Author: Kathryn E. Lane

Table contents:

1. How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?

1. What Did You Call Me?: Defining Geekdom

Part Frontmatter

2. A Nerd, a Geek, and a Hipster Walk into a Bar

3. Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multimethodological Ideographic Cluster Analysis of <Nerd> and <Geek> on Twitter

4. Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts

2. In or Out?: Defending Nerddom

Part Frontmatter

5. Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality

6. Ich Bin Ein Nerd!: Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media

7. Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and Sports

8. Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Toward an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities

3. I Saw It on TV: Depictions of “Other” Nerd/Geek Stereotypes on Television

Part Frontmatter

9. How Is It Okay to Be a Black Nerd?

10. That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body

11. Modern Nerd: Alex Dunphy and Growing Up Geeky in Modern Family

4. I Am A Nerd!: Depictions of the Nerd/Geek Stereotype on Film

Part Frontmatter

12. From Zero to Hero and Back Again: Nerd Nobodies, Magic Makeovers, and the Power of the American Dream in Four Teen Films

13. The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film

14. The Horror of the Geek: The Geek Archetype in Slasher Film

15. Survival of the Smartest?

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