Against and Beyond: Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance

Product Description Against and Beyond: Subversion and Transgression in Mass Media, Popular Culture and Performance is a collection of fourteen essays by scholars representing a number of disciplines discussing transgression and subversion in film, television, music, theatre and digital media. Moving across major political and cultural movements of the 20th century, the book addresses a global need for transgression and subversion in our times. Applying theories of Freud, Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, Adorno and Horkheimer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Butler, the volume is an important contribution to understanding the mechanisms and functions of subversion and transgression in contemporary media and popular culture and provides essential reading for all those seeking to go against and beyond. About the Author Magdalena Cie lak teaches drama, theatre and media at the University of ód , Poland. She is the co-editor with Agnieszka Rasmus of Images of the City (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and PASE Papers in Literature and Culture ( ód University Press, 2008). Agnieszka Rasmus teaches drama and film at the University of ód , Poland. She is the author of Filming Shakespeare, From Metatheatre to Metacinema (Peter Lang, 2008) and co-editor with Magdalena Cie lak of Images of the City (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) and PASE Papers in Literature and Culture ( ód University Press, 2008).