| Hood Contributor(s): Kinney, Alison (Author), Schaberg, Christopher (Editor), Bogost, Ian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501307401 ISBN-13: 9781501307409 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 391.43 |
| LCCN: 2015023231 |
| Series: Object Lessons |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 4.75" W x 6.5" (0.40 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Red Riding Hood, torturers, executioners and the executed, athletes, laborers, anarchists, rappers, babies in onesies, and anyone who's ever grabbed a hoodie on a chilly day. Alison Kinney's Hood explores the material and symbolic vibrancy of this everyday garment and political semaphore, which often protects the powerful at the expense of the powerless-with deadly results. Kinney considers medieval clerics and the Klan, anti-hoodie campaigns and the Hooded Man of Abu Ghraib, the Inquisition and the murder of Trayvon Martin, uncovering both the hooded perpetrators of violence and the hooded victims in their sights. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kinney, Alison: - Alison Kinney is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays, reviews, and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, L.A. Review of Books, New Criticals, Salon, and The Literary Review.Bogost, Ian: - Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. Bogost is author or co-author of seven books: Unit Operations (2006), Persuasive Games (2007), Racing the Beam ( 2009), Newsgames (2010), How To Do Things with Videogames (2011), Alien Phenomenology (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), and 10 PRINT CHR (205.5+RND(1)); Goto 10 (2012). Bogost also creates videogames that cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, and tort reform. His games have been played by millions of people and exhibited internationally. His game A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival.Schaberg, Christopher: - Christopher Schaberg is Associate Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2013) and co-editor of Deconstructing Brad Pitt (2014). He is series co-editor (Ian Bogost) of the series Object Lessons. |