Impure play/ Sacredness,transgression, and the tragic in popular culture
Alexander Riley
- 1st.ed
- Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010.
- 185.p
Serious play, sacred transgression, and popular tragedy ; "Too many discos and too many lovers" : the scandal of Michel Houellebecq's literary sociology ; The rebirth of tragedy out of the spirits of gangsta rap and death/black metal ; Scandal and impurity in sports heroism ; God games : death, violence, and the sacred in video game play ; "A new kind of fear" : the online desequestration of suicide and death ; On cultural sociology as a way of life.