Age of the Geek : Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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Chapter 1: How Was the Nerd or Geek Born?
Section I: What Did You Call Me?: Defining Geekdom
Chapter 2: A Nerd, A Geek, and a Hipster Walk Into a Bar...
Chapter 3: Mediagasms, Ironic Nerds, and Mainstream Geeks: A Multi-Methodological
Ideographic Cluster Analysis of and on Twitter
Chapter 4: Changing Faces: Exploring Depictions of Geeks in Various Texts
Section II: In or Out?: Defending Nerddom
Chapter 5: Geek Metafiction: Nerds, Footnotes, and Intertextuality
Chapter 6: Ich Bin Ein Nerd!: Geek Identity in Insider and Outsider Media
Chapter 7: Geek Is the New Jock: The Relationship Between Geek Culture and SportsChapter 8: Geeking Out and Hulking Out: Towards an Understanding of Marvel Fan Communities
Section III: I Saw It on TV: Depictions of "Other" Nerd/Geek Stereotypes on Television<
Chapter 9: How Is It Okay to be a Black Nerd?
Chapter 10: That Geek Look: Beauty and the Female Geek Body
Chapter 11: Modern Nerd: Alex Dunphy and Growing Up Geeky in Modern Family
Chapter 12: From Zero to Hero and Back Again: Nerd Nobodies, Magic Makeovers, and the Power of the American Dream in Four Teen Films
Chapter 13: The Geek as Rake: Roving Masculinity in Contemporary Film
Chapter 14: The Horror of the Geek: The Nerd Archetype in Slasher Film
Chapter 15: Survival of the Smartest?
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