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Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the "digital native" who acts as an unquestioning devotee to screened technologies like the smartphone. In this study, unplugged tools, or non-digital tools, do not necessitate a ban on technology or a refusal to acknowledge its affordances but work instead to highlight the ability of fictional characters to move from high tech settings to low tech ones. By repurposing everyday materials, characters model the process of reusing and upcycling existing materials in innovative ways. In studying examples such as Pitch Perfect, Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Get Out, the book aims to make theories surrounding materiality apparent within popular culture and to help today's readers reconsider stereotypes of the young people they encounter on a daily basis.

Technology in popular culture --- Technology --- Mass media and the arts --- Technology and the arts --- Social aspects

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"This book is the first-ever study of the representation of domestic time-saving electrical appliances in twentieth-century American literature. It examines the literary depiction of refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, oven ranges, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, toasters, blenders, standing and hand-held mixers, and microwave ovens across a range of literary genres and forms published between the early 1910s, as Fordism and Taylorism entered the home, and the 2010s, as contemporary writers consider the enduring material and spiritual effects of these objects into the twenty-first century. Rachele Dini argues that literary scholarship has too long ignored the influence of electrification on literary form, and of domestic electrification on the literary representation of home and on shifting understandings of the relationship between the home, body, and nation. Dini further argues that the appropriation and subversion of the rhetoric of domestic electrification comprised a crucial, but overlooked, element in specific twentieth-century literary forms and genres including postmodernist fiction, science fiction, and second-wave feminist fiction. All-Electric? Narratives thus demonstrates the extent to which American writers over the last century have enlisted appliances to raise questions about gender norms and sexuality, racial exclusion and erasure, class anxieties, the ramifications of mechanisation and the potential replacement of humans by robots, the perils and possibilities of conformity, the limitations of patriotism, and the inevitable fallacy of utopian thinking-while both shaping and radically disrupting the literary forms in which they operated."--

Technology in popular culture --- Advertising in popular culture --- Household appliances, Electric --- Household appliances, Electric --- History --- Social aspects.

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This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology—now the dominant feature of our civilization—in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives, the effect of those narratives upon us, and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an approach grounded in the humanities, adding another perspective to that of social scientists and technologists. .

Culture --- Literature --- Technology in literature. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Cultural and Media Studies, general. --- Literature and Technology/Media. --- Literary Theory. --- Study and teaching. --- Philosophy. --- Technology --- Literature and technology. --- Technology in popular culture. --- Social aspects. --- Industry and literature --- Technology and literature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Cultural studies --- Theory --- Popular culture --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Literature-Philosophy. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Literature—Philosophy.

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Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary study that seeks to investigate and speculate about the relationship between technology and human nature through popular culture. Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture seeks to gain a better understanding of how slaves are created and justified in the imaginations of a supposedly civilized nation. It is a timely and creative analysis of the ways in which we domesticate technology and the manner in which the history of s

Technology --- Technology in popular culture. --- Slavery --- Slavery in art. --- Androids --- Androids in art. --- Humanoid robots --- Humanoids (Androids) --- Robots --- Virtual humans (Artificial intelligence) --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- Popular culture --- Social aspects. --- Enslaved persons