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Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly’s construction of the “extraordinarily ordinary” celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in “just being yourself” while simultaneously defining what the “right” sort of self is in contemporary culture.

Reality television programs --- Social aspects --- Us Weekly, celebrity, reality television, reality star, reality television celebrity, media, magazines, celebrity gossip, 2000s, ordinariness, fame, twenty-first century celebrity, gossip narratives.

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Was der »Bechdel-Test« für die weibliche Filmfigur ist, liefert dieses Buch für Rassismus im Film. Lima Sayeds Untersuchung zeigt auf, wie die Themen, Formen und Aspekte von Rasse und Rassismus im US-amerikanischen Film der 2000er Jahre in stets wiederkehrenden Mustern zum Ausdruck kommen: Desolate, weiße Männer wandeln sich zu heldenhaften Rettern hilfloser rassifizierter Anderer und finden dabei Erlösung für sich selbst. Neben einer für die heutige Zeit notwendigen Revision des Bedeutungskomplexes Rassismus legt Lima Sayed Merkmale und Mechanismen frei, die wesentlich für das Verständnis des modernen Rassismus sind. Die Studie leistet damit sowohl einen Beitrag zu den Filmwissenschaften als auch zum gegenwärtigen neuen Rassismusdiskurs. »In ihrer Gesamtschau liefern Sayeds Ergebnisse zahlreiche Anregungen und zeigen deutlich auf, wie produktiv die Perspektive der Kritischen Weißseinsforschung für eine rassismuskritische Lesart von Filmen ist.« Ömer Alkin, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2-3 (2020) »Das filmische Wissen und Verständnis der Autorin ist beeindruckend.« Hans Helmut Prinzler, www.hhprinzler.de, 25.10.2019 Besprochen in: [rezens.tfm], 1 (2020), Michaela Wünsch

Film; USA; Medien; Rassismus; Weißsein; Kultur; Kollektive Identität; 2000er Jahre; Medienkultur; Amerika; Amerikanistik; Cultural Studies; Kulturwissenschaft; Media; Racism; Whiteness; Culture; Collective Identity; 2000s; Media Culture; America; American Studies; --- 2000s. --- America. --- American Studies. --- Collective Identity. --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Media Culture. --- Media. --- Racism. --- USA. --- Whiteness.

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Prophets and Patriots takes readers inside two of the most active populist movements of the Obama era and highlights cultural convergences and contradictions at the heart of American political life. In the wake of the Great Recession and amid rising discontent with government responsiveness to ordinary citizens, the book follows participants in two very different groups-a progressive faith-based community organization and a conservative Tea Party group-as they set out to become active and informed citizens, put their faith into action, and hold government accountable. Both groups viewed themselves as the latest in a long line of prophetic voices and patriotic heroes who were carrying forward the promise of the American democratic project. Yet the ways in which each group put this common vision into practice reflected very different understandings of American democracy and citizenship.

Political participation --- Democracy --- Tea Party movement --- Religion and politics --- Social movements --- Tea Baggers movement --- Teabaggers movement --- Populism --- Protest movements --- 2000s. --- activism. --- activist. --- american government. --- american history. --- american politics. --- citizenship. --- community. --- conservative. --- cultural. --- culture. --- democracy. --- faith. --- government. --- great recession. --- modern era. --- modern world. --- obama era. --- political parties. --- political. --- politics. --- populist movement. --- populist. --- progressive. --- prophets. --- religion. --- religious studies. --- tea party. --- united states history. --- us history.

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The urgent demand for housing after World War I fueled a boom in residential construction that led to historic peaks in home ownership. Foreclosures at the time were rare, and when they did happen, lenders could quickly recoup their losses by selling into a strong market. But no mortgage system is equipped to deal with credit problems on the scale of the Great Depression. As foreclosures quintupled, it became clear that the mortgage system of the 1920s was not up to the task, and borrowers, lenders, and real estate professionals sought action at the federal level. Well Worth Saving tells the story of the disastrous housing market during the Great Depression and the extent to which an immensely popular New Deal relief program, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC), was able to stem foreclosures by buying distressed mortgages from lenders and refinancing them. Drawing on historical records and modern statistical tools, Price Fishback, Jonathan Rose, and Kenneth Snowden investigate important unanswered questions to provide an unparalleled view of the mortgage loan industry throughout the 1920s and early '30s. Combining this with the stories of those involved, the book offers a clear understanding of the HOLC within the context of the housing market in which it operated, including an examination of how the incentives and behaviors at play throughout the crisis influenced the effectiveness of policy. More than eighty years after the start of the Great Depression, when politicians have called for similar programs to quell the current mortgage crisis, this accessible account of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation holds invaluable lessons for our own time.

Mortgage loans --- Home ownership --- New Deal, 1933-1939. --- History --- Home Owners' Loan Corporation --- History. --- new deal, home ownership, property, housing, residential construction, foreclosure, mortgage, market, credit, great depression, real estate, lenders, borrowers, home-owners loan corporation, holc, loans, subsidies, nonfiction, politics, history, political science, economic crisis, government programs, public policy, assistance, 1930s, 2000s, 2020s, inflation, finance, race, racism, discrimination, black, african american, exclusion.

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"Mariah Carey is immediately known for two things: a stratospheric, five-octave vocal range and massive success on the charts (she has more Billboard no. 1 singles than any other solo artist). As Andrew Chan points out in this book, that fed easily into the narrative around an artist who came of age in the excess-riddled 1990s-and was married to Sony CEO Tommy Mottola. Chan, though, is digging deeper into her catalog and her biography to argue that it is actually Carey's songwriting, studio instincts, artistic evolution, and the nuances--rather than the extremes--of her voice that separate her from other successful artists of her generation. And, stepping beyond the music, Carey's story as a biracial woman, as well as her "large and loyal LGTBQ fanbase," further distinguish her from her peers. The book unfolds in a mostly chronological manner. Chan's second chapter discusses the in-between nature of Carey's work, contrasting the label's early attempts to package her as a "white" artist with less-discussed examples of her hip-hop-inflected remixes and her gospel-tinged Christmas album. By the mid 1990s, she was working with hip-hop producers such as Missy Elliott. Chan also identifies the mid 90s as important for the emergence of her penchant for humor and her contrasting self-pity-"emo Mariah and class-clown Mariah," as he puts it. Carey's personal and professional struggles in the early 2000s lend poignancy to her ballads from this period, when her voice was no longer the singular force it was a decade earlier. The decline in her voice presents a particular problem for the "nostalgia" aspect of her career, something that she has countered, to a degree (she can still sing with the best), through nonmusical ventures as well as more eccentric and experimental choices in her latest work. At the close of the book, Chan reflects on diva worship, especially as a queer listener, and the ways in which Mariah has aligned herself with her queer audience"--

Popular music --- Women lyricists. --- Women singers. --- Women singers --- History and criticism. --- Black music, pop music, 1990s, 2000s, Music Box, The Emancipation of Mimi, ballad, nostalgia, pop music diva, Voice studies, whistle tone, Lambs, Queen of Christmas, fantasy, biracial, voice, tommy mottola.