Description
Chapter 1: How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?
Section I: What Did You Call Me?: Defining Geekdom
Chapter 2: A Nerd, A Geek, and a Hipster Walk Into a Bar...
Chapter 3: Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multi-Methodological
Ideographic Cluster Analysis of and on Twitter
Chapter 4: Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts
Section II: In or Out?: Defending Nerddom
Chapter 5: Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality
Chapter 6: Ich Bin Ein Nerd!: Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media
Chapter 7: Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and SportsChapter 8: Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Towards an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities
Section III: I Saw It on TV: Depictions of "Other" Nerd/Geek Stereotypes on Television
Chapter 9: How Is It Okay to be a Black Nerd?
Chapter 10: That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body
Chapter 11: Modern Nerd: Alex Dunphy and Growing Up Geeky in Modern Family
Chapter 12: From Zero to Hero and Back Again: Nerd Nobodies, Magic Makeovers, and the Power of the American Dream in Four Teen Films
Chapter 13: The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film
Chapter 14: The Horror of the Geek: The Nerd Archetype in Slasher Film
Chapter 15: Survival of the Smartest?
Author: Kathryn E. Lane
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 08/25/2018
Pages: 297
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.66d
ISBN13: 9783319880969
ISBN10: 3319880969
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Social Science | Gender Studies
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | General
About the Author
Kathryn E. Lane is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of English at Northwestern Oklahoma State University, USA. Lane founded the Geek and Popular Culture area at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference in 2012. She has published an article on BBC's series Sherlock, presented on The Big Bang Theory, Scorpion, and Blindspot.