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978-1-78661-570-1 • Hardback • September 2020 • $132.00 • (£102.00)
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Giuliana Monteverde is a Lecturer in Broadcast Production at Queens University, Belfast.
Victoria McCollum is a Lecturer in Cinematic Arts at Ulster University.
Introduction
Part 1: Hashtag Activism, the Celebrity Politician and Celebrities in Politics
1. ‘I miss the old Kanye’: Keeping Up with Kanye, Kim and President Donald Trump, Giuliana Monteverde and Victoria McCollum
2. Unlikely Heroes? – Celebrity Activism in Times of Trump and Brexit, Sabrina Mittermeier
Part 2: Political Fiction, Fictional Politicians and Unbreakable Women
3. The Good Fight: The Subtle Dance of Race, Gender, and Politics, Maria Cipriani
4. Feeling Unbreakable: TV Heroines in the Age of Trump, Jennie Carlsten
Part 3: American Dystopia, Brexit Dreams and Waking Nightmares: The Cultural Politics of Horror and the Spectacle of Violence in the Brexit-Trump Era
5. In Trump’s America, The Handmaid's Tale Matters More Than Ever, Stephanie Adams
6. ‘Outrage is Immediate but Moviemaking Takes Time’: 2018 and Horror Cinema’s Direct Response to President Donald Trump, Todd K Platts and Kibiriti Majuto
7. The Media and the Normalisation of Right-Wing Violence in the age of Brexit and Trump, Jason Lee
Part 4: Aesthetics of Protest: Visibility, Visual Culture and Creative Communication
8. A Sign of the Times: Humorous Slogans and Imagery in Modern Day Political Protest, Ellie Tomsett and Nathalie Weidhase
9. What Anti-Trump Protest Looks Like: Visual Analysis of Women’s March, Marjon Kenis and Hedwig de Smaele
10. ‘Sing an Angry Song’: The Impact of Political Choirs in the UK, Barbara Henderson
Part 5: Respect Existence or Expect Resistance: Identity Politics and Power in Popular American Sport
11. The Evolution: Women’s Power in the Populist Politics of Monday Night Raw, Samantha Kise
12. Taking the Knee and Taking to the Streets: Narratives of Respect and Disrespect in the Black Lives Matter Movement, Elaine Crory
Conclusion
With 16 other contributing authors, [Monteverde and McCollum] cover different aspects of popular culture as it has unfolded during the Brexit-Trump era, with some emphasis on cinema. Together the authors make an important claim that popular culture has become, in a time of right-wing populism, more a channel for political expression and socially responsible activism than ever before. This theme is examined in 12 chapters, adopting at points the perspective of social protest and resistance, or paying homage to earlier scholars and social scientists, e.g., Tedd Gurr and Charles Tilly.... Fairly easy to read, the chapters eschew technical language and employ ethnographic narrative including quoted examples. From a theoretical point of view, the volume is informed by discourse analysis, uniting social trends and popular expressions of cultural resistance. Recommended.
— Choice Reviews
Monteverde and McCollum have brought together a timely collection that examines a range of forms of and opportunities for presenting resistance within culture. They demonstrate how this work and the issues it deals with are urgently present within our everyday lives and how these examples can provide hope when that can appear in short supply.
— Derek Johnston, Lecturer in Broadcast, Queen’s University, Belfast
A fantastic, urgent and lively collection that importantly thinks about what it means to resist in the here and now. Monteverde and McCollum are two of the most significant young scholars in Anglo-American cultural and media studies and this carefully curated edited collection reflects brilliantly their intelligence, craft and ethico-political commitment. A truly wonderful book.
— Robert Porter, Director of the Centre for Media Research, Ulster University