American Taboo
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American Taboo

The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture

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American Taboo

The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture

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America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. Flatulence … male nudity … abortion … masturbation: these are just a few of the taboo topics in the United States. What do culturally enforced silences about certain subjects say about our society—and our latent fears? This work provides a broad yet detailed overview of popular culture's most avoided topics to explain why they remain off-limits and examines how they are presented in contemporary media—or, in many cases, delicately explored using euphemism and innuendo. The author offers fascinating, in-depth analysis of the meaning behind these portrayals of a variety of both mundane and provocative taboos, and identifies how new television programs, films, and advertising campaigns intentionally violate longstanding cultural taboos to gain an edge in the marketplace.

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Publisher
Praeger
Year
2013
ISBN
9798216047483
Edition
1
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Cultura popular

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: The Where and Why of Pop Culture’s Hottest Buttons
  7. The Gay Chapter: Sketching the Animated Homosexual
  8. The Oral Sex Chapter: Cunnilingus and the Politics of the Lick
  9. The Flatulence Chapter: Exploring Matters of the Fart
  10. The Rude Gestures Chapter: Flicking the Channel and Flipping the Bird
  11. The Euphemisms Chapter: Sex and Bodily Euphemisms on Screen and in Song
  12. The Vegetarian Chapter: Introducing the Hippies, Sad Sacks, and Fundamentalists
  13. The Alcohol Chapter: The Drunk in Film and Television
  14. The Drugs Chapter: Advertising Mother’s Little Helper
  15. The Abortion Chapter: Back Alleys and Back Stories on Screen
  16. The Penis Chapter: Undressing Male Nudity
  17. The Circumcision Chapter: Capturing Cuts in Popular Culture
  18. The Vibrator Chapter: That Buzzing Sound in Film and Television
  19. Conclusion: The Rarely Simple Taboo Presentation
  20. Media References
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index