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Materiality and Popular Culture “Conceptually eclectic and empirically wide-ranging, this book provides an expansive and sophisticated exploration of the complex, shifting and emer- gent relations between the material and the popular.” —Mike Michael, University of Sydney, Australia “Approaching the growing research field of material and popular culture from a range of perspectives and through many relevant and up-to-date case studies, this anthology adds to our understanding of the materiality of our everyday encounters with the popular.” —Karin Fast, Karlstad University, Sweden This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social, and professional lives. Appro- priating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase—“the social life of things”—with which he inspired scholars to take material culture more seriously and, as a result, treat it as an important and revealing area of cultural studies, the book explores the relationship between material culture and popular prac- tices, and points to the impact they have exerted on our coexistence with material worlds in the conditions of late modernity. Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. Her research interests embrace critical theory, popular culture, material culture, and love studies. She is particularly interested in the formation of social and cultural norms and social-aesthetic codes of cultural production. Karolina Lebek is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. She specializes in early modern studies, specifically in the study of objects as well as material cultures—that is, theorizing and representing things in cultural and literary practices. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com. 83 Reviving Gramsci Crisis, Communication, and Change Marco Briziarelli and Susana Martinez Guillem 84 Motherhood in the Media Infanticide, Journalism, and the Digital Age Barbara Barnett 85 The Pedagogies of Cultural Studies Edited by Andrew Hickey 86 Intimacy on the Internet Media Representation of Online Intimacy Lauren Rosewarne 87 The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing Subjugated Knowledges Sarah Lowndes 88 Advertising and Public Memory Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs Edited by Stefan Schutt, Sam Roberts and Leanne White 89 Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood Brand Mom Jorie Lagerwey 90 Technologies of Consumer Labor A History of Self-Service Michael Palm 91 Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender Transcultural Perspectives Edited by Bettina Hofmann and Monika Mueller 92 Materiality and Popular Culture The Popular Life of Things Edited by Anna Malinowska and Karolina Lebek Materiality and Popular Culture The Popular Life of Things Edited by Anna Malinowska and Karolina Lebek First published 2017 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Malinowska, Anna, 1979– editor. | Lebek, Karolina. Title: Materiality and popular culture: the popular life of things / edited by Anna Malinowska and Karolina Lebek. Description: New York; London: Routledge, 2016. | Series: Routledge research in cultural and media studies; 92 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016014250 Subjects: LCSH: Material culture. Classification: LCC GN406 .M384 2016 | DDC 306.4/6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016014250 ISBN: 978-1-138-65780-9 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-62116-6 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Popular Life of Things 1 ANNA MALINOWSKA AND KAROLINA LEBEK PART I Theorizing the Popular and the Material 1 Culture: The ‘Popular’ and the ‘Material’ 13 JOHN STOREY 2 Cultural Materialisms and Popular Processes of Late Modernity 25 ANNA MALINOWSKA 3 The Secret Life of Things: Speculative Realism and the Autonomous Object 41 GRZEGORZ CZEMIEL PART II From Material Media to Digital Materiality 4 The Representation of Book Culture in It-Narratives 55 JOANNA MACIULEWICZ 5 The Intimacy of Writing—Lost in a Digital Age? 65 MAYANNAH N. DAHLHEIM 6 Popular Digital Imaging: Photoshop as Middlebroware 76 FRÉDÉRIK LESAGE 7 When You Are Not What You Do Not Have: Some Remarks on Digital Inheritance 88 MARCIN SARNEK vi Contents PART III The Agency of Things and the Negotiation of Meaning 8 I See Faces: Popular Pareidolia and the Proliferation of Meaning 105 JOANNE LEE 9 From Piss-Communication to GraffARTi: Hegemony, Popular Culture, and the Bastard Art 119 DAVID WALTON 10 From Performance to Objects and Back: London’s InterAction 132 LUCIA VODANOVIC 11 Bohemian Bourgeoisie and Subversive Commodities 143 BARTOSZ STOPEL PART IV Popular Narratives and Material Culture 12 Objects Don’t Lie. The Truth and Things in Detective Stories 157 JOANNA SOćKO 13 Emotional Territories: An Exploration of Wes Anderson’s Cinemaps 167 NICOLÁS LLANO LINARES 14 The Poetics of Objects in True Detective 179 KAROLINA LEBEK 15 Mapping the Daytime Landscape: World-Building on U.S. Soap Operas 193 C. LEE HARRINGTON AND BYRON MILLER PART V Material Culture and the Creative Self 16 In Reverse: Declining Automobility and the Accidents of Progress 213 MARCIN MAZUREK 17 Living Dolls—A Food Studies Perspective 225 NINA AUGUSTYNOWICZ Contents vii 18 Contemporary Toys, Adults, and Creative Material Culture: From Wow to Flow to Glow 237 KATRIINA HELIAKKA 19 From Stuff to Material Civilization—Toward a Materiality of Childhood 250 DAVID JAMES Contributors 261 Index 265 This page intentionally left blank List of Figures 9.1 Graffiti as marking territory, Cieza, Murcia. (Photo by Margarita Navarro Pérez.) 127 9.2 Squat and double appropriation in Madrid. (Photo by Ana Rull.) 127 9.3(a) and (b) The street answers back. Details: Mother Teresa and Kofi Annan. (Photos by David Walton.) 128 18.1 Blue toys in photoplay. (Photo by Katriina Heliakka.) 246 18.2 Seiren of the sea—artistic photoplay. (Photo by Katriina Heliakka.) 246 18.3 Toys in a game session within a diorama. (Photo by Katriina Heliakka.) 247 19.1 Framework for a materiality-informed study of childhood. 257
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