Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its political and pedagogical value as a site of critique and learning and calls for a reinvigorated critical relationship between cultural studies and those diverse cultural workers committed to expanding the possibilities and practices of democratic public life.
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In recent years politicians have bemoaned the state of popular culture. Occasionally, they extend their critique of the entertainment industry to the new field of cultural studies, which typically celebrates pop culture's "subversive" qualities. But not everyone involved in the cultural studies movement favors today's popular culture. Distinguished author Giroux (education, Pennsylvania State Univ.) also finds much to criticize about contemporary culture. His focus here is on violence in the media. "Serious films have given way to the blockbuster," he complains, "and the tradeoff has been an increase in the number of violent films shown in movie theaters across the United States." In this context he looks at representations of blacks in the media, the growing power of talk radio, and the world view of the Disney Corporation. Giroux is particularly critical of Quentin Tarantino's films, asserting that the director "produces a racially coded, reactionary cultural politics and pedagogy that transforms neo-conservative callousness and contempt for the underclass into a hip representation of avant-garde high art." Giroux's thought-provoking approach is recommended for general and academic libraries.
Kent Worcester, Social Science Research Council, New York
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Kent Worcester, Social Science Research Council, New York
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"This may be the most daring and best book that Giroux has written in his attempts to link pedagogy with a variety of cultural spheres. With such a thoughtful and lucid analysis of the relationship among youth, violence and race, Fugitive Cultures is a book that every educator should read."
-"Harvard Educational Review
"By dissecting elements of popular culture, particularly films, Giroux...questions the imagery that adults fabricate about youth....the book shows how adults shed responsibility, assume a stance of righteous indignation and point fingers at a group busy trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in."
-"The Nation
"Henry Giroux's Fugitive Cultures is a brilliant and beautiful book. It maps the complicated intersections of race, culture and youth with bold imagination and critical sympathy. Of all Giroux's work--and his books and articles are national intellectual resources--this is his best, and most timely, effort. It reminds us again that Henry Giroux is a towering public intellectual motivated by deep moral passions and keen political insight."
-Michael Eric Dyson
"[Giroux] is steadily harsh in his criticism of the [Disney] company, which he sees as an irresponsible "teaching machine" that imparts the wrong values."
-"Sacramento Bee ...its conclusions are valuable to parents concerned about the cultural sea in which their children swim.
"Its conclusions are valuable to parents concerned about the cultural sea in which their children swim.."
-"Los Angeles Times
-"Harvard Educational Review
"By dissecting elements of popular culture, particularly films, Giroux...questions the imagery that adults fabricate about youth....the book shows how adults shed responsibility, assume a stance of righteous indignation and point fingers at a group busy trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in."
-"The Nation
"Henry Giroux's Fugitive Cultures is a brilliant and beautiful book. It maps the complicated intersections of race, culture and youth with bold imagination and critical sympathy. Of all Giroux's work--and his books and articles are national intellectual resources--this is his best, and most timely, effort. It reminds us again that Henry Giroux is a towering public intellectual motivated by deep moral passions and keen political insight."
-Michael Eric Dyson
"[Giroux] is steadily harsh in his criticism of the [Disney] company, which he sees as an irresponsible "teaching machine" that imparts the wrong values."
-"Sacramento Bee ...its conclusions are valuable to parents concerned about the cultural sea in which their children swim.
"Its conclusions are valuable to parents concerned about the cultural sea in which their children swim.."
-"Los Angeles Times
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Explaining why the kids are not alright.,
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This review is from: Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth (Paperback)
This book looks at the negative images - violent, irresponsible, etc.- which the media use to portray youth while ignoring the social conditions that produce real hardship for many young people.Giroux shows that youth are increasingly becoming the scapegoat for problems caused by an unjust and repressive society.Also discussed is the insidious Disneyfication of America and the use of talk radio by right wing demagogs.It is a hard hitting expose of some very disturbing trends in the modern media.
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a passionate defense of youth--and academe,
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This review is from: Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth (Paperback)
In Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence and Youth, Henry A. Giroux subjects media representations of youth to penetrating critique, placing himself squarely on the side of youth. He perceives youth as doubly disadvantaged: demonized in popular culture, and caught between "American dreams" of a better life and the reality of a declining economy (12). Authority and legitimation have been taken away from the institutions of family, school and workplace, and accorded to the electronic media discourses. Giroux faults the schools and the discipline of education for refusing "to deal with the teacherly influence and pleasures of popular culture" (14). He advocates cultural studies as a platform for the study of "youth problems," since it "has never reduced education to the study of schooling." This last-mentioned quality is one of great promise, I believe, for the study of marginalized sub-cultures (as in my prospective research): it is impossible within the hegemony of formal institutions to obtain a somewhat comprehensive view of the modalities in which self-identification takes place for members of subcultures.
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please buy this book,
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this book changed my outlook on popular culture and the media. This may be the best book that i have ever brought. it is amazing and i plan on passing it along to all of my friends. It provides a raw look at culture and the power of media, and provides and outline and explaination of why american society is in its current state
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Youth have once again become the object of public analysis. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
politicizing education, ritualistic violence, other cultural workers, cinematic violence, democratic public life, correctness movement, lic intellectuals, pedagogical sites, mated films, youth films, critical citizenship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, River's Edge, The Lion King, Patrick Buchanan, The Little Mermaid, Natural Born Killers, Quentin Tarantino, Bob Dole, Die Hard, John Smith, Los Angeles, Schindler's List, Times Magazine, Christian Coalition, Cornel West, First Amendment, Gordon Liddy, Social Darwinism, Uma Thurman, New York City New!
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