The Wow Climax : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture.

The Wow Climax : Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture.

Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video). Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts--a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vau...

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Main Author: Jenkins, Henry
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Popular culture > United States.
Popular culture > United States > Psychological aspects.
Emotions > Social aspects > United States.
Affect (Psychology) > United States.
Aesthetics > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
Mass media > United States > Psychological aspects.
United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
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