Isn t it Ironic Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture 1st Edition by Ian Kinane 100037701 9781003080350

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• ISBN 10:1003080359
• ISBN 13:9781003080350
• Author:Ian Kinane

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic?

Table contents:

1 Thoughts for the times on the death taboo: Trivialization, tivolization, and re-domestication in the age of spectacular death
2 ‘A stark and lonely death’: Representations of dying alone in popular culture
3 Celebrity deaths and the thanatological imagination
4 The Penguin and the Wahine: Shipwrecks, resilience, and popular culture
5 Healing comes from paradise: Illness, cures, and the staving off of death in naturist remedies advertising
6 The aesthetics of corpses in popular culture
7 Into the dark side of Pop Art: From Warhol to Banksy
8 Towards a cultural theory of killing: The event of killing in Quentin Tarantino’s movies
9 ‘The radio said, “there’s another shot dead”’: Popular culture, ‘rebel’ songs, and death in Irish memory
10 Locating death in children’s animated films
11 Death in Don DeLillo’s White Noise: A literary diagnosis of contemporary death culture
12 Narratives of death and immortality in the ‘Islamic State’ discourse on Twitter

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