Age of the Geek: Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783319880969)

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 Sports

Chapter 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

Section IV: I Am A Nerd!: Depictions of the Nerd/Geek Stereotype on Film

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
ISBN-10: 3319880969
ISBN-13: 9783319880969
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 08/25/2018
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.66d