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The Wow Climax
The Wow
Climax
Tracing the Emotional
Impact of Popular Culture
Henry Jenkins
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
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“Games, the New Lively Art” originally appeared in Jeffrey Goldstein, ed.,
Handbook for Video Game Studies (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005).
“Death-Defying Heroes” originally appeared in Sherry Turkle, ed., Evocative
Objects: Things We Think With (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007).
“Never Trust a Snake: WWF Wrestling as Masculine Melodrama” originally
appeared in Aaron Baker and Todd Boyd, eds., Out of Bounds: Sports, Media,
and the Politics of Identity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997).
“‘Going Bonkers’: Children, Play, and Pee-Wee” originally appeared in Camera
Obscura 17 (May 1988).
“‘Complete Freedom of Movement’: Video Games as Gendered Play Spaces”
originally appeared in Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, eds., From Barbie to
Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
1998).
“‘Her Suffering Aristocratic Majesty’: The Sentimental Value of Lassie” origi-
nally appeared in Marsha Kinder, ed., Kid’s Media Culture (Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 1999).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jenkins, Henry, 1958–
The wow climax : tracing the emotional impact of popular culture / Henry Jenkins.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4282-2 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8147-4282-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4283-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-8147-4283-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Popular culture—United States. 2. Popular culture—United States—Psychologi-
cal aspects. 3. Emotions—Social aspects—United States. 4. Affect (Psychology)—
United States. 5. Aesthetics—Social aspects—United States. 6. Mass media—
Social aspects—United States. 7. Mass media—United States—Psychological
aspects. 8. United States—Social conditions—1933–1945. 9. United States—Social
conditions—1945– I. Title.
E169.12.J46
2006
302.230973—dc22
2006022413
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