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Participating Audiences, Imagined Public Spheres: The Cultural Work of Contemporary American(ized) Narratives - Introduction

Verfasser / Komponist: Herrmann, Sebastian M.
beteiligte Personen: Kanzler, Katja [] • Usbeck, Frank []
Medientyp: E-Artikel
veröffentlicht:
Leipzig Leipziger Universitätsverlag 2012
Online-Ausg.. 2016
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Zusammenfassung: This is a book about contemporary American(ized) narratives and the audiences they call into being. It brings together eight very diverse case studies covering and investigating a wide range of media, genres, and modes to ask how contemporary 'texts' encourage 'imagined communities' of readers/viewers that operate as 'public spheres' of social and political deliberation, self-fashioning, and debate. In asking this question, the contributions collected in this volume shift perspectives in a number of ways: They question the boundary between the audiences of (often popular and broadly circulating) narratives on the one side and national public spheres on the other; they thus encourage rereading the transnational mobility of American(ized) narratives not simply as a phenomenon of popular culture but as an indicator of emerging transnational public spheres; and they invite us to look closely at the narrative dynamics with which these texts operate their audiences as public spheres.
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