The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture

The wow climax tracing the emotional impact of popular culture

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudev...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jenkins, Henry, 1958- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press c2007.
New York, NY : [2006]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture > United States > Psychological aspects.
Emotions > Social aspects > United States.
Affect (Psychology) > United States.
Aesthetics > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media > United States > Psychological aspects.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
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